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. B. Tegetmeier 7 March [1858]
Summary
Wrote some weeks ago about Burmese fowl-skins; is willing to send them, carriage paid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (15 July 2015, lot 176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504F |
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 |
To Louis Agassiz 21 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of Contributions [to the natural history of the United States of America, vol. 1, pt 1: Essay on classification, and vol. 1, pt 2: North American Testudinata (1857)]. Flattered; CD sees there is much of highest interest to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2217 |
From H. C. Watson 23 March 1858
Summary
Discusses the ranges of species in large and small genera; difficulties involved in limiting the discussion to Britain.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2245 |
To W. E. Darwin 27 [February 1858]
Summary
CD intends to enter WED at Christ’s College.
Thanks him for inquiries made about horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2227 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … r Mayor? — —I sent off Harding this morning. — I am particularly obliged for your enquiries about Horses; you need not ask questions only keep your eyes open. — Please answer me, was the “Belgiman” a large massive Cart-Horse & was its colour chesnut? Parslow is going to take the mare to see if a man will buy her this evening. — A grand new Pianoforte has just arrived. — I am not very brisk, so no more my dear old man | Your affect. Father | C. Darwin …
To Emma Darwin [28 April 1858]
Summary
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2261 |
To W. E. Darwin [3 May 1858]
Summary
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [3 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2268 |
To W. E. Darwin [9 December 1858]
Summary
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A18, A25–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2379 |
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 |
From John Lubbock 10 June 1858
Summary
Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.
Nervous system of Coccus.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2284 |
From H. C. Watson 23 February [1858]
Summary
Believes that botanists tend to mark more varieties in large than in small genera, but notes that where many varieties of a species exist these varieties may well be passed over, whereas similar varieties of another species which are fewer in number may well be recorded.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2223 |
To W. E. Darwin [26 April 1858]
Summary
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2265 |
Matches: 2 hits
To John Phillips 1 September [1858]
Summary
Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2324 |
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 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
Summary
Reports on difference between first and second plantings of beans.
| 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 |
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