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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
12 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.270)
Summary:

Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
19 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Declines invitation to visit DN’s orchid collection. Thanks for orchids and list [of available plants]. Requests a few more spikes of Bolbophyllum, particularly of species with irritable labellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
27 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Hindman (dealers) (8 October 2020, lot 44)
Summary:

Thanks Dorothy Nevill for her assistance in supplying him with plants, but he will not require any more. Asks her to remember him to A. E. Knox.

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:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
[1874–82]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 123
Summary:

[Valediction and signature only.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8
Summary:

Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].

Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.

Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
7 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
Summary:

Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
11 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Returns a Drosera, from which he cut a piece for microscopic examination.

Utricularia montana just arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
12 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD has never before seen the Utricularia DN has sent. Hooker had told him about it. Asks that her gardener observe young Utricularia: CD is interested in internal structure of little balls on bladders.

Sends photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Stupidly missed Utricularia bladders, which he assumed were with the leaves. Has now found true bladders on roots and has evidence of captive prey. Thinks bladders capture subterranean insects. Thinks the large bladder-like structures are water reservoirs. DN’s plant has given him a most enjoyable day of work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
29 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 147: 187
Summary:

CD thought he had already reported to DN on Utricularia. The large swellings in roots store water. The minute bladders are adapted to catch live animals and feed on decayed remains.

Will visit DN when in London this winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Feb 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.463)
Summary:

Cannot visit now because of work on Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:

Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
6 Apr [1876-82]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Received Darlingtonia; cannot explain its fructification.

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks DN for references.

The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
19 and 21 Feb 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 57940 f. 106)
Summary:

Will call on addressee when he is next in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
23 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD is familiar with cases of prepotency that are so strong that a cross has no effect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
29 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Daniel Plunkett (private collection)
Summary:

Has much pleasure in signing the little book; is glad his book on earthworms interested her.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project