From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Summary
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6229 |
To G. G. Stokes 11 March [1868]
Summary
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6003 |
To W. E. Darwin 21 March [1868]
Summary
Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6037 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, 25 March [1868] , and by CD’s stay at Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in London from 11 March to 1 April 1868 ( Emma …
- … Emma Darwin ( letter to W. E. Darwin, [15 March 1868] ). John Lubbock was a partner in the family bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co . ( ODNB ). Hensleigh Wedgwood …
To W. B. Tegetmeier [5–9 March 1868]
Summary
Would like to meet with WBT while in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [5–9 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5991 |
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
To Edward Blyth 25 March [1868]
Summary
Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6049 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
Matches: 1 hit
To W. E. Darwin 25 March [1868]
Summary
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
From Edmund Langton to S. E. Wedgwood 9 November [1868]
Summary
Observations on a Sphinx moth; attraction of dark spots.
| Author: | Edmund Langton |
| Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 9 Nov [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A93–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6453 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Edmund and Charles Langton to S. E. Wedgwood, [after 9 November 1868] . Frances Allen . Sphinx moths belong to the family Sphingidae. Langton refers to the humming-bird hawk-moth, Macroglossa stellatarum. In Descent 1: 400, CD mentioned humming-bird moths being attracted to flowers painted on walls in the south of France. Henrietta Emma …
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter: the Darwins were at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight from 17 July to 20 August 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Leonard Darwin had come second in the entrance examination for the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 221). It is not known where the Darwins saw the news. The reference is to Erasmus Alvey Darwin , Hensleigh Wedgwood and Frances Emma …
To John Bush 29 February [1868]
Summary
Writes at Frank Buckland’s suggestion. Can JB provide any information on the proportion of sexes in rats?
Do male rats fight for the possession of the female? Are they polygamous?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Bush |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5961 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from F. T. Buckland, 27 February 1868 . CD noted that male rats were said by some rat-catchers to live with several females in Descent 1: 268. This is the address of CD’s brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin ; CD stayed there from 3 to 11 March 1868. He then stayed with his sister-in-law, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , at 4 Chester Place, until 1 April ( Emma …
To W. E. Darwin [15 March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6067 |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Fritz Müller, 16 March [1868] . Henrietta Emma Darwin wrote in an undated letter to her brother George Howard Darwin (DAR 245: 285): ‘Macmillan has rejected her book & is very angry with the bargain, & the worry & vexation of this has quite upset poor Snow. ’ (Snow was Frances Julia Wedgwood’ …
From William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin 28 February [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5952 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Francis Darwin has not been found. He had entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1866 ( Alum. Cantab. ). The natural sciences tripos was established in 1851 for students who had received a BA in classics or mathematics; it was opened to men who were studying for the BA in 1861 ( Brooke 1988–2004 , 3: 203–4, 231–2, 4: 153–7; see also MacLeod and Moseley 1982). Trinity College awarded scholarships in the natural sciences in 1869 and 1870 ( Cambridge University calendar 1869 and 1870). Leith Hill Place in Surrey was the home of Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Langton, Edmund | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Bush, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
