From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 May [1869-82]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
13 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973)
Summary:
CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pamplin
Date:
4 [July 1862]
Source of text:
Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40)
Summary:
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
17 Sept 1864
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15)
Summary:
Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Glenbow Museum
Summary:
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
[17 June 1865]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
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:
20 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
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:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M)
Summary:
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
J. David Archibald (private collection)
Summary:
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
8 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
5 Mar [1867?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22)
Summary:
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 June [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 68 (EH 88206051)
Summary:
Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[17 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 49
Summary:
Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?
Polymorphic genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[after 5 June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 366
Summary:
Discusses measurements of bees’ cells. Describes modification in structure of Melipona hive. Notes importance of natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project