To George Dickie [5 July 1861]
Summary
Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Dickie |
Date: | [5 July 1861] |
Classmark: | Liverpool Central Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3198 |
To John Lubbock 10 August [1861]
Summary
With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 46 (EH 88206490) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3229 |
To Charles Lyell 6 September [1861]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3246 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 8 October 1861]
Summary
Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3280 |
To John Lindley 17 November [1861]
Summary
Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3323 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 November [1861]
Summary
Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3319 |
To John Lubbock [2 August 1861]
Summary
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [2 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3225 |
To Richard Kippist 27 [February or March 1861?]
Summary
Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 27 [Feb or Mar] 1861 |
Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3889A |
To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
Summary
Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
To Thomas Salt 17 February [1861]
Summary
Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063F |
To Williams & Norgate 4 March [1861]
Summary
CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 4 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3082F |
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
To John Tyndall 24 July [1861]
Summary
Has been idling and enjoying the scenery.
"At dinner we were all sticking bits of ice together by their points, marvelling at the phenomenon and talking of you."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 24 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 4 (EH 88205942) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3217 |
To Charles Lyell 13 [August 1861]
Summary
Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.
Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 [Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3230 |
To Williams & Norgate 25 August [1861]
Summary
Instructions to a book seller.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 25 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3235F |
To John Lindley 18 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 18 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3289 |
From George Bentham 29 November 1861
Summary
Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3332 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 November [1861]
Summary
Reports events at Down;
has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3307 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
Hooker, J. D. | (56) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Lubbock, John | (14) |
Lyell, Charles | (14) |
Darwin, C. R. | (375) |
Hooker, J. D. | (59) |
Darwin, W. E. | (18) |
Oliver, Daniel | (17) |
Lyell, Charles | (16) |