From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DAR 174: 1 Unidentified Roseden, Jersey 29 Apr 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Aug 1864 1 Aug 1865 Unidentified …
To ? 7 May [1861–8?]
Summary
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 May [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3141 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 7 May 1862 7 May 1863 7 May 1864 7 May 1865 7 May 1866 7 May 1867 7 May 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 24 August [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13880 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1862 24 Aug 1863 24 Aug 1864 24 Aug 1865 24 Aug 1866 24 Aug 1867 24 Aug 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 31 December [1861–8]
Summary
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | J. David Archibald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1862 31 Dec 1863 31 Dec 1864 31 Dec 1865 31 Dec 1866 31 Dec 1867 31 Dec 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 20 June [1861–8]
Summary
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13879 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 20 June 1863 20 June 1864 20 June 1865 20 June 1866 20 June 1867 20 June 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 25 November [1861–8]
Summary
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1862 25 Nov 1863 25 Nov 1864 25 Nov 1865 25 Nov 1866 25 Nov 1867 25 Nov 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 11 Mar 1864 11 Mar 1865 11 Mar 1866 11 Mar 1867 11 Mar 1868 11 Mar 1869 Unidentified …
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 June 1863 11 June 1864 11 June 1865 11 June 1866 11 June 1867 11 June 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 8 December [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770J |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 8 Dec 1862 8 Dec 1863 8 Dec 1864 8 Dec 1865 8 Dec 1866 8 Dec 1867 8 Dec 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 29 Mar 1864 29 Mar 1865 29 Mar 1866 29 Mar 1867 29 Mar 1868 29 Mar 1869 Unidentified …
To Ladies 24 February [1862–9]
Summary
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 24 Feb 1864 24 Feb 1865 24 Feb 1866 24 Feb 1867 24 Feb 1868 24 Feb 1869 Down Unidentified …
To J. D. Hooker 19 [April 1864]
Summary
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 [Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4468 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). CD refers to an unidentified manuscript that Brown …
To ? 23 January [1843–6 or 1856–69]
Summary
Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69] |
| Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13873 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863 23 Jan 1864 23 Jan 1865 23 Jan 1866 23 Jan 1867 23 Jan 1868 23 Jan 1869 Unidentified …
To ? 7 August [1843–68?]
Summary
Declines invitation to ride because he is "so very subject to headache".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1843-68] |
| Classmark: | Daniel V. Grossman (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 7 Aug 1862 7 Aug 1863 7 Aug 1864 7 Aug 1865 7 Aug 1866 7 Aug 1867 7 Aug 1868 Unidentified …
To ? 1 March [1843–82]
Summary
Regrets not having a duplicate of one of his books to give away. "You will before long no doubt be able to borrow a copy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13865 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 1 Mar 1865 1 Mar 1866 1 Mar 1867 1 Mar 1868 1 Mar 1869 1 Mar 1870 1 Mar 1871 1 Mar 1872 1 Mar 1873 1 Mar 1874 1 Mar 1875 1 Mar 1876 1 Mar 1877 1 Mar 1878 1 Mar 1879 1 Mar 1880 1 Mar 1881 1 Mar 1882 Unidentified …
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864–7, p. 12). In late 1862, Canterbury province was represented by seven men ( Scholefield 1950 , pp. 154–67); the member of parliament opposed to funding Hooker’s work has not been identified. The New Zealand Wars of 1845–72 were financed primarily by imperial resources in 1861 and 1862; provincial expenditures for the conflicts between the colonists and the Maori were generally not popular with the colonists, so the unidentified …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
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| Unidentified | (1) |
| Unidentified | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Unidentified | (15) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Variation in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
