From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse
Date:
[after 12 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 39-40
Summary:
Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Hewitt
Date:
[c. 22 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 41
Summary:
Asks for facts relating to courtship of birds and especially cases of females preferring particular males.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 2 (EH: 88205900)
Summary:
Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
7 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 44
Summary:
States his intentions regarding Horace’s future education. CD thought he had made those intentions clear in an earlier letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
CUL (Add MS 7656: D75)
Summary:
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 42–3
Summary:
Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
[after 12 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 182v
Summary:
Assures AW he has not hurt Horace’s feelings. CD has always been doubtful about a private tutor for Horace. Fears a letter [giving notice of removal] was lost in the post.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 125
Summary:
Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 126
Summary:
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 58–9
Summary:
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 127
Summary:
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Alfred Smith
Date:
[11–31 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 94–5
Summary:
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 119–20); DAR 106: B160–3
Summary:
On problem of sterility, CD cannot persuade himself that it has been gained by natural selection.
On sexual selection and minute variations, he tends to agree with ARW. Sends George Darwin’s notes on ARW’s argument.
Contributor:
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