From Asa Gray 9 May [1869]
Summary
Encloses Mrs Gray’s notes on expression among Arabs.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6737 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1869
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6588 |
From Asa Gray 26 and 29 October [1869]
Summary
As CD is to be in London, AG will try to get to Queen Anne St to see him.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 and 29 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6957 |
From Asa Gray 23 August 1869
Summary
Announces his return to England.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6867 |
From Asa Gray 20 October 1869
Summary
Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.
Returns to U. S. on 9 November.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6946 |
To Asa Gray 1 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6767 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Gray, Asa …
- … To Asa Gray 1 June [1869] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1869] Asa Gray …
- … CD after his accident; see the letter from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. The …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Asa and Jane Loring Gray visited the Darwins from 24 to 30 …
- … letter and the letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. Letter from Asa and J. …
- … L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869 and n. 10. …
- … May 1869 and n. 9. See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869 and nn. 9 and 12. …
- … Appendix II)). See letter from Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869. CD finished the fifth …
From Asa Gray and Jane Loring Gray 8 and 9 May 1869
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.
Recounts his travels.
Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.
| Author: | Asa Gray; Jane Loring Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 and 9 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 167, DAR 165: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6736 |
From Charles Layton 23 December 1869
Summary
Has received letter from Appleton’s that they agree to reprint from the latest edition of the Origin [5th English] and will add corrections sent by CD.
They wish also to receive early sheets of new book [Descent] on which they will pay £10.
Will send cheque for sales of Origin, based on older agreement between Appleton’s and Asa Gray to pay CD 5%.
| Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7033 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … sales of Origin , based on older agreement between Appleton’s and Asa Gray to pay CD 5%. …
- … Freeman 1977 ). On the agreement with Asa Gray regarding the remittance and previous sales …
- … Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Asa Gray, 7 May 1866 and n. 3. For D. Appleton & …
- … 18, letter from D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray, 1 February 1870 . On 12 October 1870, CD …
To Charles Layton 24 November [1869]
Summary
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (31 March 1964), Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 May 1968), William Patrick Watson (dealer) catalogue 18 (2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7007 |
From W. W. Reade 26 December 1869
Summary
Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.
Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.
In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7036 |
From Louis Agassiz 6 July 1869
Summary
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
| Author: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6817 |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
To T. H. Farrer 6 May [1869]
Summary
Dislikes the use of the term "degradation" as applied to the closed flowers of Viola species. Species with such self-fertilising flowers also have flowers adapted for crossing. The development of closed flowers adapted to ensure a sufficient stock of seed is progressive.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 6 May [1869] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6730 |
To James Orton 7 October [1869]
Summary
Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Orton |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6925 |
From W. C. Tait 11 July 1869
Summary
Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
Believes principle of natural selection can be more widely applied.
Flower structure of Geranium.
| Author: | William Chester Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6825 |
To Joseph Dalton Hooker 13 January 1869
Summary
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 110–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6550 |
From Orange Judd & Co 21 April 1869
Summary
Reports on the sales of Variation; discusses the difficulties of inserting additions and corrections.
| Author: | Orange Judd & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6709 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1869
Summary
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6554 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 July [1869]
Summary
Further queries on poultry plumage.
WBT’s visit to America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 21 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6839 |
From Richard Spruce [before 1 April 1869]
Summary
Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].
Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6690 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Layton, Charles | (2) |
