To W. E. Darwin [3 November 1858]
Summary
Sends WED a bank draft.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2393 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 [November 1858]
Summary
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2353 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 November [1858]
Summary
Arrangements to meet JSH at station for his visit to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2356 |
From Samuel Wells 17 November 1858
Author: | Samuel Wells |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2363 |
To James Egan 25 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks JE for information about striped horses.
Says John Lindley wants to know about Hungarian horticulture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Egan |
Date: | 25 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2372 |
From Samuel Wells 25 November 1858
Summary
Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.
Author: | Samuel Wells |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2374 |
From John Pearson 23 November 1858
Summary
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
Author: | John Pearson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2370 |
To W. A. Leighton 21 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks WAL for specimens and observations [on scarlet runner beans]. CD is perplexed whether to account for the changes as due to simple variation or to crossing. The information will be used when he finally comes to a conclusion on the subject [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 21 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 112: B97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2368 |
To Herbert Spencer 25 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks for HS’s Essays: [scientific, political, and speculative, vol. 1 (1858)]. Admires his general argument for the development theory.
CD is preparing an abstract on change of species. He treats subject as a naturalist, not from a general point of view. Otherwise he might have quoted HS’s argument to great advantage.
CD particularly liked articles on music and style. Expression is a favourite topic with CD. Agrees all expression is biological.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 25 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2373 |
To Asa Gray 18 November [1858]
Summary
Wishes to know whether differences in constitution (such as disease susceptibility) are related to differences in complexion. "Liability to such a disease as yellow fever would answer my question in the best possible way."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2364 |
To Robert Monsey Rolfe 10 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks RMR for contribution to Down charities. Declines invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Date: | 10 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2357 |
To James Egan 8 November [1858]
Summary
Asks about dark stripes on shoulders and legs of Hungarian horses. Are stripes plainer in foal or adult?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Egan |
Date: | 8 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2354 |
From William Allport Leighton 19 November 1858
Summary
Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]
Author: | William Allport Leighton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 149–51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2366 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [November 1858]
Summary
"I thank you much for your note. The object, of course, is what you say. I did not guess that I shd have to pay so much per hen to Baker & the experiment would not be at all worth such a sum. I have not a single hen worth sending to Steven’s. If it really will not cost you much trouble, & you could get me some Hens & a young Spanish cock of pure breed . . . I will try to experiment and shall be very heartily obliged to you". CD mentions satisfactory local hens of a particular breed and an experiment being conducted on "Silver Barbs [with] black wing bars & white rump or bar at end of tail".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | Scriptorium (dealers) (1982) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2375 |
To John Lubbock [November 1858]
Summary
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2331 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 November [1858]
Summary
Hooker has convinced him that move of British Museum by Government is anticipated. He is now willing to sign the memorial. Still fears for library needs, and objects to distant Kensington site. Lyell should be asked to sign.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 248) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2352 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2369 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 November [1858]
Summary
Wants WBT’s advice on poultry breeding experiments. Are certain birds true to their kind, and what should he pay for them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2362 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2386 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Wells, Samuel | (2) |
Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
Pearson, John (a) | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Egan, James | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Egan, James | (2) |
Leighton, W. A. | (2) |