From Alfred Russel Wallace 7 April 1862
Summary
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3496 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 May 1862
Summary
Acknowledges Orchids with its disclosures of "wonderful adaptations".
Warns that CD aids critics by overstating the difficulties.
Did Owen write the article in the Quarterly Review? [Review of Origin by Samuel Wilberforce, Q. Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 2–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3568 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 [May 1862]
Summary
Quarterly Review piece written by Bishop Wilberforce with aid of Owen.
Other reviews mentioned.
Health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 [May 1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3570 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862
Summary
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3684 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862]
Summary
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3694 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin.
Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3742 |
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| Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (7) |
