From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:
[No informatiion about content.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 January 1864
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 31-32
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 148]
Summary:
Darwin expresses a desire to know ARW's recent activities. Darwin comments on a letter he received from Asa Gray 2 or 3 weeks prior to the date of this letter which mentions ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
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
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 January 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 216
Summary:
References ARW's letter to Darwin of 2 Jan 1864 about Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 217
Summary:
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 218
Summary:
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
31 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Reminds CWC that he offered to give information with respect to his observations on hollyhocks. Wishes he could persuade CWC to undertake experiments on the fertility of some crosses between the most distinct varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project