From John Murray 24 December [1866]
Summary
Two parcels of MS [of Variation] have arrived. Will proceed with printing immediately after Christmas.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 341 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5322 |
From John Murray 22 December [1866]
Summary
The presentation copy [of Origin, 4th ed.] was sent to B. D. Walsh in August. Will send another.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 340 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5317 |
To John Murray 21 and 22 December [1866]
Summary
Submits the MS of Variation, all excepting the section on Man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | Herb Sewell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314F |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray, 22 December [1866] and n. 2). The 29 September 1866 issue of the Practical Entomologist contained Walsh’s article on the naturalised gooseberry saw-fly ( Walsh 1866a ); CD’s heavily annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The other issue has not been found. Walsh was associate editor of the Practical Entomologist. See letter from B. …
To B. J. Sulivan 31 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5330 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 December [1866]
Summary
Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.
Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5293 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Tegetmeier, 9 July [1866] and n. 4). CD was in London from 22 to 29 November 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD refers to the three chapters on pigeons and fowls in Variation 1: 131–275. He had asked Tegetmeier to comment on the manuscript of these chapters the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 13). CD sent the manuscript of all but the last chapter of Variation to his publisher on 22 December 1866 (see letter to John Murray, …
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
