To John Murray 14 April [1865]
Summary
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813F |
To John Murray 2 June [1865]
Summary
There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 2 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 130) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4850 |
To John Murray 4 April [1865]
Summary
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3494 |
From John Murray 1 April 1865
Summary
Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 332 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3493 |
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1865]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.
WBT’s excellent article on crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4798 |
Matches: 2 hits
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865
Summary
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4808 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … send an estimate of the cost of the engravings to John Murray . See letter from W. B. …
- … John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865. William Yarrell had helped CD buy equipment for the Beagle voyage, and later assisted him with his pigeon work, advising him about breeds and providing introductions to dealers and breeders (for Yarrell’s correspondence with CD, see Correspondence vols. 1–5). Yarrell introduced CD to Tegetmeier in 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. B. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and [7 April 1865] . See letter to John Murray, 4 …
- … John Murray, 1 April 1865 . The note has not been found. Luke Wells was the artist recommended by Tegetmeier to prepare the pigeon illustrations for Variation (see letter to W. B. …
- … John Murray, 1 April 1865 . CD refers to Wells’s illustration of the barb pigeon in the Field , 18 February 1865. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing this and four other issues of the Field with his letter of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W. B. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865]
Summary
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4806 |
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
To George Maw 4 June [1865]
Summary
Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 4 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4853 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Baillière. Marginalia : Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Murray. Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857–61. History of civilization in England. 2 vols. London: John W. Parker & Son. Carter, Henry John. 1858. On fecundation in Eudorina elegans and Cryptoglena. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 2: 237–53. Columbia gazetteer of the world : The Columbia gazetteer of the world. Edited by Saul B. …
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Summary
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
| Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1871. Grand Larousse de la langue française. 7 vols. Paris: Librairie Larousse. 1971–8. Lucas, Prosper. 1847–50. Traité philosophique et physiologique de l’hérédité naturelle dans les états de santé et de maladie du système nerveux: avec l’application méthodique des lois de la procréation au traitement général des affections dont elle est le principe. 2 vols. Paris: J. B. …
To J. D. Hooker [29 July 1865]
Summary
Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].
Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.
Lubbock is now lost to science.
B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4874 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1868. Verlot, Bernard. 1864. Mémoire sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement. Journal de la Société Impériale et Centrale d’Horticulture 10: 243–56, 305–20, 375–84, 420–32, 468–80, 518–28, 571–6, 624–40. Verlot, Bernard. 1865. Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement. Paris: J. B. …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
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| Maw, George | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
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