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 |
To [Alfred Malherbe?] [1862–5?]
Summary
Testimonial for a position as a librarian. Recipient is the author of a great monograph on the Picidae [woodpeckers].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Malherbe |
| Date: | [1862–5?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6524 |
To Joseph Bullar 27 June [1862]
Summary
Thanks JB for "orchid flowers with Diptera".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Bullar |
| Date: | 27 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.256) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6806 |
From Francis Walker 24 June [1862]
Summary
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10547 |
To William Walmisley Baxter 26 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13773 |
To Edward Cresy 8 January [1862 or 1868]
Summary
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1862 or 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 321 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13788 |
To William Pamplin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Pamplin |
| Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13871 |
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 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
| Gray, Asa | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (15) |
| Bates, H. W. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (550) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (84) |
| Gray, Asa | (37) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (32) |
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