To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
To ? 21 August [1862]
Summary
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693F |
To Pickard & Stoneman 1 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3839 |
To Ladies 24 February [1862–9]
Summary
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418F |
From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
From Daniel Oliver [4–8 February 1862]
Summary
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–8 Feb 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2916 |
From James Bateman [1 February 1862]
Summary
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
| Author: | James Bateman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3356 |
From Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]
Summary
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
| Author: | Robert Bateman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3357 |
To John St Barbe [before 3 July 1862]
Summary
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Union Bank |
| Date: | [before 3 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3358 |
To John St Barbe [16 July 1862]
Summary
Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John St Barbe |
| Date: | [16 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 3r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3360 |
To James Brown Gibson [after 29 June 1862]
Summary
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Brown Gibson |
| Date: | [after 29 June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3361 |
From Andrew Smith [November? 1862]
Summary
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov? 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362 |
From W. E. Darwin [2 November 1862]
Summary
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362F |
From H. G. Bronn [before 11 March 1862]
Summary
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
| Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 Mar 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3363 |
From T. C. Eyton [after 19 May 1862?]
Summary
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 19 May 1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3364 |
From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | [3] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3371 |
To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard 2 January [1862]
Summary
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3372 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Summary
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
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