From John William Salter 31 December 1866
Summary
JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.
| Author: | John William Salter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5329 |
To B. J. Sulivan 31 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5330 |
To Fritz Müller [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867
Summary
Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.
Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5331 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Salter, J. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Salter, J. W. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing
Summary
< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…
