To Stephen Paul Engleheart? [April 1867?]
Summary
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
Date: | [Apr 1867?] |
Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5385 |
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 2 April 1867
Summary
On whether to make woodcuts for Variation in Russia or use Murray’s stereotypes. He has similar advance publication agreements with Carl Vogt, E. A. Rossmässler and Theodor Billroth.
The Russian version of Origin is translated from Bronn’s German edition.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5452 |
From Fritz Müller 1 April 1867
Summary
Cites cases of difference in coloration between the sexes of some species of Crustacea, annelids, and spiders.
Discusses dimorphic plants and self-sterility.
Outlines some experiments involving the crossing of different species of orchids.
Encloses extract from Carl Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863].
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B111–12; DAR 81: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5480 |
From Hermann Müller 1 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" offprint and for references on fertilisation of flowers.
Considering the bounty of work already done, he is looking for something original to do.
Subularia does not grow in Westphalia.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481 |
From John Murray 2 April [1867]
Summary
Asks if he should give the clichés of Variation to E. Schweizerbart.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 30–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481G |
From J. D. Hooker 3 April 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5483 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1867]
Summary
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5485 |
To John Murray 4 April [1867]
Summary
Asks JM not to send stereotypes [of Variation] to Schweizerbart until he has heard that Carus will translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 32–33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5486 |
To Thomas Blunt 5 April [1867]
Summary
Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.
Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Blunt |
Date: | 5 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5487 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1867]
Summary
C. Nägeli’s long letter on his four years of work on Hieracium appears to be valuable. Nägeli wants a set of British forms in exchange for German ones.
Sends note on a new genus of Umbelliferae (Drusa) in Canaries; speculates on origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 14–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5488 |
From J. V. Carus 5 April 1867
Summary
JVC is willing to translate [Variation], especially because of his conviction that progress of biology depends on proving CD’s theory.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] will do mischief because EH is so immoderate. Suggests CD tell EH that he has done him a bad service. CD is the only one to whom EH would listen.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5489 |
From Robert Trail 5 April 1867
Summary
Reports on an experiment in crossing potato varieties.
Author: | Robert Trail |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5490 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5494 |
From Carl Vogt 8 April 1867
Summary
Asks whether he may have right to translate Variation into German.
Author: | Carl Vogt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5495 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli [after 8 April 1867]
Summary
Thanks for his long letter on morphological laws.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | [after 8 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 33v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5496 |
To John Murray 10 April [1867]
Summary
CD writes about stereotypes for German and Russian editions of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 34–35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5497 |
To J. V. Carus 11 April [1867]
Summary
CD is delighted that JVC will undertake translation of Variation.
Agrees with JVC’s opinion of Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)]. CD believes it is bad policy for Haeckel to speak so positively about a disputed theory [i.e., CD’s] and particularly regrets the severity of EH’s criticisms of other authors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 11 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 8–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5498 |
To Carl Vogt 12 April [1867]
Summary
Would be great honour to have CV translate Variation, but Schweizerbart has arranged for J. V. Carus to do it.
Has read CV’s Lectures on man [1864] with extreme interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 300–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5499 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 April [1867]
Summary
Struck by singular clarity of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Remarks on various authors seem too severe. Severity leads the reader to take the side of the attacked person.
Making slow progress in correcting Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1–52/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5500 |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Vogt, Carl | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Blunt, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Carus, J. V. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Vogt, Carl | (4) |