From Henry Coe 20 October 1858
Summary
Further answers on his seed lot.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2346 |
From T. C. Eyton 16 October 1858
Summary
Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2343 |
From Henry Coe 6 October 1858
Summary
Sends more bean seeds.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2336 |
From Henry Coe 12 October 1858
Summary
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2340 |
To W. E. Darwin 6 October [1858]
Summary
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2334 |
To Skeffington Poole [27 October 1858]
Summary
Thanks for the information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Skeffington Poole |
| Date: | [27 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2348F |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To George Bentham 15 October [1858]
Summary
At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 686) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2342 |
To Skeffington Poole 20 October [1858]
Summary
Asks about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Skeffington Poole |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2346F |
To W. E. Darwin 15 [October 1858]
Summary
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2341 |
To Hugh Falconer 15 October [1858]
Summary
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4636 |
To Skeffington Poole 13 October [1858]
Summary
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Skeffington Poole |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2152 |
From Skeffington Poole [21 October 1858]
Summary
Information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Skeffington Poole |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2346G |
To Skeffington Poole 22 October [1858]
Summary
Asks supplementary questions about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Skeffington Poole |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2346H |
From Skeffington Poole 23 October 1858
Summary
Further information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Skeffington Poole |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2347F |
To [J. D. Hooker] [before 6 October 1858]
Summary
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [before 6 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Tim Lewens (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2333F |
To T. C. Eyton 11 October [1858]
Summary
Asks about dirt clinging to feet of birds as means of seed distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.159) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2338 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [October 1858]
Summary
Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 17 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2344 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [October 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection. CD opposes removing the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 246) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2349 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [October 1858]
Summary
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2339 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Coe, Henry | (3) |
| Poole, Skeffington | (2) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Poole, Skeffington | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Poole, Skeffington | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Coe, Henry | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
