From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Aug [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 274
Summary:
Condolences on W. J. Hooker’s death [12 Aug 1865].
His own health is bad.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 September [1865]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 56-58
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 163-164]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 September 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 275, 275b
Summary:
Darwin refers to ARW's "On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan region".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 or 28] Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 275
Summary:
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:
Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.
Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 276
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 276
Summary:
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223)
Summary:
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7)
Summary:
Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.
Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
8 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
11 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
13 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 374
Summary:
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
17 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3)
Summary:
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
[18–22 Oct 1865]
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (30 March 2017)
Summary:
Handwritten extract from Origin 3d ed., p. 514.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 325
Summary:
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Summary:
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Summary:
Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.
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