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 James Paget 19 December [1858]
Summary
Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."
Effects of different climates on breeding periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314 |
To Asa Gray 4 April [1858]
Summary
Discusses the variation of species in large and small genera.
Thanks AG for his list of close species.
Laments the slow progress he makes with his book [Natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2252 |
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 W. D. Fox 21 [July 1858]
Summary
After all, CD is now beginning to prepare an abstract of his species theory. Recounts the events leading to joint paper with A. R. Wallace at Linnean Society. Lyell and Hooker urge strongly that he publish a fuller abstract. It is impossible to do justice to subject in an abstract.
His sister, Marianne Parker, has died.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 21 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2312 |
To Asa Gray 21 February [1858]
Summary
Asks whether botanists tend to record varieties more carefully in large genera or small genera.
Wants information on the ranges of varieties of a species compared to the range of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2218 |
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 J. D. Hooker [17 February 1858]
Summary
General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2209 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 [February 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2210 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1858]
Summary
C. C. Babington agrees with JDH that botanists tend to note varieties more in large genera than in very small ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2235 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
To R. I. Murchison 24 [June 1858]
Summary
Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.
One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2292 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 [July 1858]
Summary
Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2301 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2310 |
To Thomas Campbell Eyton 4 August [1858]
Summary
Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.
CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.156) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2319 |
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 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 Asa Gray 4 July 1858
Summary
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 July 1858 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2302 |
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Fox, W. D. | (12) |
Darwin, C. R. | (209) |
Hooker, J. D. | (55) |
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Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Fox, W. D. | (13) |