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DCP-LETT-2855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41)
Summary:

Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.

New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.

Discusses his recent orchid observations.

Poses AG a question on design in nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 July [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30)
Summary:

Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].

Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (35)
Summary:

Agassiz is strongly opposed to Origin, but CD thinks K. E. von Baer may come out in support.

Discusses the possibility of favourable monstrosities in the light of Theophilus Parsons’ essay ["On the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 1–13].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2910

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34)
Summary:

Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.

Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2930

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (28)
Summary:

Has read sheets of AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article [Oct 1860] and praises it and AG’s other reviews and articles highly.

Is surprised at the inability of others to grasp the meaning of natural selection.

Has been testing the sensitivity of Drosera, which he finds remarkable.

Asks if AG will be able to make some observations on orchids for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2955

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (32)
Summary:

Is thinking of publishing AG’s three-part Origin review [from Atlantic Monthly] in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (33)
Summary:

Has been consulting with John Murray about the possibility of publishing AG’s three Atlantic Monthly articles [see 2910] as a pamphlet, but has been strongly advised against it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
31 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a)
Summary:

Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.

Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27)
Summary:

Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.

Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.

Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38)
Summary:

The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.

Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (39)
Summary:

Encloses note from Huxley [see 3022], who would be grateful for Chauncey Wright’s review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (J. L. Gray autograph collection 50)
Summary:

Asks AG to send his reviews [of Origin] as soon as he has definitely fixed on a title for the pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 [Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12)
Summary:

Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54)
Summary:

Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.

Insectivorous plants.

Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26–7 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a)
Summary:

Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52)
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.

Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (53)
Summary:

Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.

Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.

J. S. Henslow is dying.

Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".

Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)
Summary:

AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].

Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.

Insect fertilisation of orchids.

Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 July [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61)
Summary:

Is writing his paper on orchids.

Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.

Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.

Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.

Discusses American politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3255

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (73)
Summary:

Is interested in cases of dimorphism like Primula. Discusses Primula and Linum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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