To John Murray 17 November [1856–7]
Summary
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026 |
To John Murray 20 November [1856–7]
Summary
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.54–55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1028 |
To John Lubbock [1 November 1856]
Summary
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1980 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 November [1856]
Summary
Has received nine skins from Walter Elliot of Madras; WBT may describe them if he wishes.
Expects some Persian fowls.
Can WBT inquire about the fertility of certain duck hybrids?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1981 |
To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856]
Summary
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11–12 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1986 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1856]
Summary
CD finds JDH’s objections to a mundane cold period significant, and he endeavours to show how they do not rule out mutability.
He is writing on crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1989 |
To J. W. Lubbock 18 November [1856]
Summary
Obliged for JWL’s note [missing]. Will forward it to Mr Wedgwood.
Remarks, "it was … blunder of A. Woods about your wanting the Furniture."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1990 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856]
Summary
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1991 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 November [1856]
Summary
Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Expects larger collection of skins from West Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 19 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1992 |
To John Higgins 19 November [1856]
Summary
Is very glad to hear of the increased rent. Prefers lien agreement with tenant, Mr Hardy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 19 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1993 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November [1856]
Summary
CD, attempting to clarify debate, states more of his position. External conditions cause "mere variability". Formation of species due to selection. Relation of an organism to its associates far more important than external conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1997 |
To Asa Gray 24 November [1856]
Summary
Variability of naturalised plants.
Distribution of Arctic/alpine plant species.
Limits to the northern range of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 24 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1999 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [November 1856]
Summary
Writes about suitable mourning clothes and sale of house [Petleys, after death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood I].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2000 |
To John Thompson 26 November [1856]
Summary
Thanks for promise of rabbit carcase and for information about rabbit at Zoological Society’s Garden.
Requests correspondent to ask Mr Vivian for carcase of an old "Creve-coeur" cock. CD has found that the skull in this breed is modified to support its comb.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Thompson |
Date: | 26 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2001 |
To George Bentham 26 November [1856]
Summary
Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 26 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 684) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 29 November [1856]
Summary
Has received some poultry from various parts of the world.
CD is glad that WBT is describing the birds that he acquires.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 29 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2004 |
To George Bentham 30 November [1856]
Summary
Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 30 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 685) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2005 |
To J. M. Herbert 18 November [1856]
Summary
Defers a visit with Lieutenant Blakiston; "my wife is out of health & expects her confinement in a few weeks, & I cannot possibly receive any one here or leave home . . ."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (June 1991); Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (catalogue 26, 1992); Gerard A. J. Stodolski Inc. (dealers) (1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020A |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet [before 3 November 1856]
Summary
Discusses shipment of skins of carrier pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | [before 3 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2031 |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Thompson, John | (1) |