To a librarian [1858 or later]
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1858 or later] |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199F |
From Hewett Cottrell Watson 3 January 1858
Summary
Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 13 January [1858]
Summary
Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.
Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201F |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1858
Summary
Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley 1918, 1: 453 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2204 |
To John Stevens Henslow 25 January [1858]
Summary
Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A50–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2207 |
To George Bentham 27 January [1858]
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13778 |
From Edward Blyth [8 January 1858]
Summary
Zebra-striped asses.
Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.
Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.
Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Jan 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2200 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 17 January [1858]
Summary
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2205 |
To William Darwin Fox 14 January [1858]
Summary
Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].
CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2202 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 26 January [1858]
Summary
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2043 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Carpenter, W. B. …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 27 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von. 1899. Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From John Innes 9 January [1858–9]
Summary
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1858-9] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13818 |
To Joseph Dalton Hooker 12 January [1858]
Summary
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201 |
To W. D. Fox 31 January [1858]
Summary
Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].
Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.
Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2208 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 4 January [1858?]
Summary
The information correspondent hopes to get from M.-J.-P. Flourens will be valuable.
CD is keeping all varieties of pigeons, poultry, ducks, etc. for his work on variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1858?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2036 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
| letter | (15) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
