From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3681 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
To C. C. Babington 2 September [1862]
Summary
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3707 |
From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674 |
To K. E. S., L. C., and M. S. Wedgwood 4 [August 1862]
Summary
Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.
Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 4 [Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4373 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
To Sophy Wedgwood 24 March [1878–80]
Summary
Asks her to observe seedlings of Neottia breaking the surface to see whether the flower stems grow straight up or form arches, and whether they secrete water that softens the surrounding ground.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1878-80] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 4251: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11442 |
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, M. S. | (2) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Sophy | (2) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, M. S. | (3) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (2) |
