To [‘Julian’] [c. 1864]
Summary
[No informatiion about content.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julian |
Date: | [c. 1864] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4375F |
From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
To Hermann Kindt 17 September 1864
Summary
Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 17 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13874 |
To John Scott 8 January [1864]
Summary
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 8 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13882 |
From H. C. Watson [16 May 1864]
Summary
Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891H |
To Frederick Smith [c. 17 February 1864?]
Summary
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3365 |
To Charles William Crocker 31 January [1864]
Summary
Reminds CWC that he offered to give information with respect to his observations on hollyhocks. Wishes he could persuade CWC to undertake experiments on the fertility of some crosses between the most distinct varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles William Crocker |
Date: | 31 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3425 |
To Daniel Oliver 31 March [1864]
Summary
Asks DO to give enclosed [letter?] from John Scott to Hooker.
JS’s work on orchid self-sterility; Acropera has 371250 seeds in one capsule.
Wishes something could be done for Scott.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 31 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 44 (EH 88206027) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4068 |
To H. B. Dobell 17 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his note. The analogy of surnames had not occurred to CD – only that of language generally, as shown so well by Lyell. Fears HBD’s argument about progression would not have much weight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 17 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 8 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4239 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland [before 11 December 1864]
Summary
Salmon and trout increase in size with river.
Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.
Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4363 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4365 |
From William Jenner [after 24 November] 1864
Summary
CD’s urine is normal. He may take antacids for his stomach.
Author: | William Jenner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Nov] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4367 |
From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4369 |
To John Lubbock [1 January 1864]
Summary
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4375 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 January 1864
Summary
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4376 |
From Ernst Haeckel 2 January 1864
Summary
Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].
Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4377 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
To A. R. Wallace [c. 10 April 1864]
Summary
Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.
Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [c. 10 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (143) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Darwin, E. A. | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (202) |
Hooker, J. D. | (39) |
Oliver, Daniel | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Scott, John | (7) |