From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 83
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray; Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 and 9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 167—8
Summary:
Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.
Recounts his travels.
Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a)
Summary:
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.31-32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH & his wife have returned from Scythia via Stockholm, Wiborg [Vyborg], Helsingfors [Helsinki], the Swedish lakes, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Neuenhausen, Utrecht, Leyden, Amsterdam, Hage [Hague] & Rotterdam. He is tired of rail travel & hotels, he would prefer a tent in the jungle or a cabin at sea. JDH regrets that Gray has given up on the FL[ORA]. AM[ERICANA]. BOR[EALIS]. He describes Regel's poor organisation [of the International Botanical Congress] at St Petersburg, including the absence of any Russian botanists except [Alexander Andrejewitsch von] Bunge. A good 'show' was put on & many medals awarded, there was some misreporting of the medals given in the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. JDH does not like St Petersburg, he prefers Moscow. They stayed with the Andersons in Stockholm, met old Fries, Theodor Fries & [Johnan Erhard] Areschoug in Upsala [Uppsala] & spent a day each with Reichenbach & Booth in Hamburgh [Hamburg]. He admires the antiquities museums of Stockholm & Denmark. They saw Wendland's Palms at Utrecht & stayed with Miguel. JDH returned to a lot of work at RBG Kew, including the matter of opening the gardens in the morning, he thinks it is the right thing to do but will mean reorganisation & a lot of additional work for him as so much of the running of Kew depends on him personally. He is made of strong stuff so can handle the work but he expects [John] Smith, Curator of the Gardens, will be overwhelmed. JDH mentions the state of his personal finances & describes himself as 'living hand to mouth'. Concludes with news that Darwin is in North Wales & very unwell, Bentham & Baker are on holiday, the latter in Geneva, & [Thomas] Thomson is well.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 169
Summary:
Announces his return to England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:
Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.
Returns to U. S. on 9 November.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 29 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 172
Summary:
As CD is to be in London, AG will try to get to Queen Anne St to see him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
