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DCP-LETT-5921

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 161
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".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5928

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 162
Summary:

AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6179

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 163
Summary:

Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6206

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 164
Summary:

CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6370

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 165
Summary:

Reached Kew last evening.

Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6867

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 169
Summary:

Announces his return to England.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6931

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 170
Summary:

Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6946

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:

Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.

Returns to U. S. on 9 November.

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DCP-LETT-6957

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 29 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 172
Summary:

As CD is to be in London, AG will try to get to Queen Anne St to see him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Summary:

Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43)
Summary:

If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.

Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44)
Summary:

CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2701

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[8 or 9 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (11)
Summary:

Sends historical preface and corrections for American edition of Origin;

would have liked AG’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84] at the head.

Agrees with AG’s assessment of weak points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (22)
Summary:

Thinks AG’s review is admirable.

Reactions of others to the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23)
Summary:

Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2718

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24)
Summary:

Has been ill with pleurisy.

Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31)
Summary:

Further additions and corrections for American Origin.

Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2743

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47)
Summary:

Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.

Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],

but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13)
Summary:

Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14)
Summary:

Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.

Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.

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