From Robert Monsey Rolfe [20 November 1863]
Summary
Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.
Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4316 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 or 3 November 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 3] Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 173–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4325 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 27 November 1863]
Summary
Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [before 27 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4327 |
To John Scott 7 November [1863]
Summary
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 7 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4332 |
From E. A. Darwin 9 November [1863]
Summary
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4334 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [November 1863]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4335 |
From George Clendon Jr 10 November 1863
Summary
Suggests a possible explanation of the supposed paucity of intermediate forms in fossil formations.
Author: | George Clendon, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4336 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 10 November 1863
Summary
Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4337 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [November 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4342 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
From Asa Gray 23 November 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4346 |
To Roland Trimen 25 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 25 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4347 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4348 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 November 1863
Summary
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4349 |
To Daniel Oliver 28 [November 1863]
Summary
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 28 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4350 |
To Hurst & Blackett 15 November [1863]
Summary
Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hurst & Blackett |
Date: | 15 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4672 |
letter | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Clendon, George, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Hurst & Blackett | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Clendon, George, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |