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DCP-LETT-10808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Leggett
Date:
22 Jan 1877
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Michael Asher
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Cannot answer questions on origin of instinct, sociology, etc. Suggests references in Origin and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].

Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
21 Jan [1843]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Discusses his account.

Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anatole Roujou
Date:
28 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Has read correspondent’s work. Glad he is not shocked at belief that man is descendant of lower form. An unusual attitude for a Frenchman.

Fears they differ greatly on origins of moral sense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reeve Brothers.
Date:
[Aug 1846]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[early July 1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.

Are measuring glasses accurate?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr. Dorrell; William Clowes & Sons
Date:
9 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Sends instructions to Messrs Clowes concerning typesetting and printing of proof-sheets of Descent.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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