From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
[1840–77?]
Source of text:
Estate of the late Mr D. Evans (private collection)
Summary:
Valediction only of a letter stuck into a writing case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
1 Dec 1840
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
Summary:
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
[1–23 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 39
Summary:
Tells WAL where specimen of Cynoglossum sylvaticum may be seen growing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
25 Nov [1844-6]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013)
Summary:
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 149–51
Summary:
Sends an account of different colours and shapes of seeds raised from ordinary seeds of scarlet runner. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
21 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 112: B97–8
Summary:
Thanks WAL for specimens and observations [on scarlet runner beans]. CD is perplexed whether to account for the changes as due to simple variation or to crossing. The information will be used when he finally comes to a conclusion on the subject [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
26 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
Milton D. Forsyth, Jr (private collection)
Summary:
For his work on dimorphism, CD asks WAL if he can send roots of two forms of Epilobium angustifolium. He doubts that they are reciprocally connected like the two forms of Primula, but will try the experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
4 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Unknown dealer
Summary:
Apologises for the trouble he has caused over his enquiries about strawberries. Describes the problems he and Emma have had with Verbascum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 180
Summary:
His observations of varieties of Verbascum.
Reference to Abbé Correa in the Life of Sir J. E. Smith.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 76: B95–6
Summary:
Describes the floral structure of the lupin and gives his observations on its pollination by bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
