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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Summary:

Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Aug [1861-8]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
1 June [1860]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/1)
Summary:

Thanks for invitation [to stay with GR at Oxford], but his poor state of health requires him to stay in private lodgings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
6 June [1860]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/)
Summary:

CD’s plans are uncertain because of his daughter’s [Henrietta Darwin] fever.

If GR would kindly reserve rooms for CD near college, CD will write before the meeting [of British Association at Oxford] if he is prevented from coming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
2 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5)
Summary:

Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

New edition of Origin to appear immediately.

Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
7 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6)
Summary:

Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.

Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks for orchids and other flowers.

Will send photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
11 July [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.

CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".

Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White; Royal Society of London
Date:
17 [Oct or Nov] 1862
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD needs first volume of the second series [of Trans. R. Hortic. Soc. Lond.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:

Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
29 Dec [1864?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:

Asks TCE to verify whether otter-hounds have more skin between their toes than other hounds. Also interested in cases of infertile matings between normally fertile individuals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[23 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (Bence Jones autograph letter file)
Summary:

Had hoped to call, but cannot do so comfortably, so will HBJ call on CD instead, for a consultation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
16 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7)
Summary:

Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.

Asks for rabbit specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21)
Summary:

Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project