To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
To ? 20 June [1861–8]
Summary
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 June [1861-8] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13879 |
To W. E. Darwin 1 [June 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 1 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3171 |
To John Lubbock 6 June [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for a meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 6 June [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3177 |
To Edward Walford 13 June [1861]
Summary
Sends "the dates of the principal events of my Life" requested by EW [for use in his Men of the time (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Walford |
Date: | 13 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Ralph Colp Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3181 |
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
To John Lubbock 1 June [1861]
Summary
William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 1 June [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3172 |
To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
From B. P. Brent 15 June 1861
Summary
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3184 |
To the Field [before 15 June 1861]
Summary
His thanks to "Eques" of Argyllshire for his remarkable information on the inheritance of colour in horses. Acknowledges the difficulty of defining dun. Requests further information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Field |
Date: | [before 15 June 1861] |
Classmark: | The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 521 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3182A |
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 15 June 1861]
Summary
Reports his experiment with fertilising the large periwinkle (Vinca major), which he had never known to produce seed. He found that the pollen could not reach the stigma without the aid of insects, which in England never visit the flower. CD produced seeds by inserting a fine bristle, like the proboscis of a moth. Asks readers to repeat this experiment with other species that do not habitually seed and to report the result.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 15 June 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 15 June 1861, p. 552 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3182 |
To Henry Bence Jones 23 June [1861]
Summary
Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 23 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194A |
To Frederick Smith 19 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses pollen-masses found on various insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
Date: | 19 June [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.255) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3189 |
To George Gordon 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks whether GG can help CD get specimens of Corallorhiza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gordon |
Date: | 17 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3185 |
To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 17 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
From Robert Colgate 25 June 1861
Summary
Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.
Author: | Robert Colgate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197 |
To George Bentham 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].
Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3193 |
To George Gordon 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.
Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gordon |
Date: | 22 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3191 |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Colgate, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
More, A. G. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
More, A. G. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Gordon, George (b) | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Colgate, Robert | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Malden, B. S. | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
The Field | (1) |
Walford, Edward | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Woodward, S. P. | (1) |