From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1865
Summary
His distress that his engagement has been broken off.
Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;
"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4750 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 September 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4894 |
From Charles Cardale Babington 28 March 1865
Summary
University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4799 |
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 28 December 1865
Summary
Sending cheque for Down parish charities.
Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4958 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
To Rudolph Heine 16 March [1865]
Summary
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph Heine |
Date: | 16 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786F |
To John Higgins 31 May 1865
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 31 May 1865 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4843F |
From Charles Kingsley 10 June 1865
Summary
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4857 |
To John Higgins 21 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 21 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4940F |
To Daniel Oliver 24 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4643 |
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
To Richard Kippist 8 February 1865
Summary
Requests all parts of Transactions due him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 8 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4767 |
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
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- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin Many thanks for your very kind letter. I am delighted with your praise, & am especially glad that you like the last Chapter about which I was a little afraid. The Morning Advertiser devoted a leading article the other morning to abusing me for writing the book & the Times for reviewing it favourably. You do not mention how you are. I hope the ice Continues to do you good. Ever dear M r Darwin | Yours affec | John Lubbock C …
From Henry Denny 23 January 1865
Summary
Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].
Author: | Henry Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4753 |
From C. V. Naudin 18 June 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper "Climbing plants" [see 4861] and for a photograph.
Hopes soon to send a copy of his memoir on hybridisation
and with it will forward a short note on the tendrils of the Cucurbitaceae.
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4863 |
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