From Asa Gray 14 January [1868]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5786 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1868
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5833 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
From Asa Gray 24 February 1868
Summary
AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].
Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5921 |
From Asa Gray 25 February [1868]
Summary
AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5928 |
To Asa Gray 8 May [1868]
Summary
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6167 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1868
Summary
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6179 |
From Asa Gray 25 May 1868
Summary
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6206 |
To Asa Gray 15 August [1868]
Summary
AG’s coming visit to England.
Hooker’s Presidency of BAAS.
A month at the Isle of Wight has done almost nothing for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6316 |
From Asa Gray 17 September 1868
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6370 |
From Asa Gray 11 October [1868]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6931 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (12) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |