To John Crawfurd 25 March [1861]
Summary
Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Crawfurd |
Date: | 25 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13786 |
To T. C. Eyton 12 [May 1861 – April 1863]
Summary
Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.
Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13804 |
To Charles Lovegrove 9 July [1861?]
Summary
Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 9 July [1861?] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13823 |
To H. C. Watson [17 July 1861]
Summary
Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?
Polymorphic genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Date: | [17 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1616 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 17 February [1861]
Summary
Sends cheque.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2415 |
To Frederick Temple [c. 28 February 1861]
Summary
Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Temple |
Date: | [c. 28 Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2628 |
To Daniel Oliver 22 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 22 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2661 |
To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
Summary
Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
From Henry Fawcett 16 July [1861]
Summary
Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.
Author: | Henry Fawcett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2868 |
To Williams & Norgate [1861]
Summary
Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [1861] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3040F |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
From Jeffries Wyman 8 January [1861]
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3045 |
To W. D. Fox 9 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 9 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
To John Murray 21 January [1861]
Summary
Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.
Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3048 |
To William Walmisley Baxter? 22 January 1861
Summary
Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 22 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (MS 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3049 |
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