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 Walter Elliot 12 December [1858]
Summary
Thanks WE for an oriental treatise on pigeons, a paper on poultry, and specimens.
Asks about stripes on shoulders and legs of horses and donkeys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
Date: | 12 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.162) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2380 |
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 J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
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 Charles Cardale Babington 22 February [1858]
Summary
CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 22 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2220 |
To C. C. Babington 4 March [1858]
Summary
Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.
Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 4 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2233 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 22 March 1858
Summary
Recommends Leonard Horner’s "Account of some recent researches near Cairo" for publication in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 53–9]. Believes all the details and sections should be published in full because of importance of investigations leading to the conclusion that man has existed in Egypt for over 13000 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Secretary, Royal Society |
Date: | 22 Mar 1858 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2244 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [May 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2275 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 June [1858]
Summary
Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.
Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2280 |
To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 July [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2300 |
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 Frederick Smith [before 9 March 1858]
Summary
Four queries regarding the habits of bees and ants with answers by FS interlined between each query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
Date: | [before 9 Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet collection (bound with Smith, Frederick (a) 1854) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2235A |
To W. D. Fox 22 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks for Hewitson [British oology].
Has found more variability in birds’ nests than he expected.
Interested in WDF’s note about turkey terrified by a frog [see Natural selection, p. 488 n.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 22 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2219 |
To Charles Lyell [25 June 1858]
Summary
Everything in Wallace’s sketch also appears in CD’s sketch of 1844. A year ago CD sent a short sketch of his views to Asa Gray. Can CD honourably publish his sketch now that Wallace has sent outline of his views? "I would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man shd. think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit." Does not believe Wallace originated his views from anything CD wrote to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [25 June 1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2294 |
To W. D. Fox 24 June [1858]
Summary
Gives his opinion of the charges against E. W. Lane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 114) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2293 |
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- … r . Lane innocent & that it is a most cruel case. — —I fear it will ruin him. I never heard a sensual expression from him. — I am writing this under much hurry, (but I will not miss a post) as poor dear Etty has been most seriously ill with an attack very like Diptheria; but thank God after much suffering is recovering; but last night our Baby commenced with Fever of some kind. Yours affectionately | C. Darwin …
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 29 December 1858
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 398 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2387 |
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 W. D. Fox 8 May [1858]
Summary
Will be most curious to hear results of WDF’s experiment with a kite and turkey chicks "by themselves".
If WDF ever sees a striped dun horse, he should ascertain colour of dam and sire.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 8 May [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2270 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
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