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DCP-LETT-6931

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 170
Summary:

Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6736

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:
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DCP-LETT-6867

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 169
Summary:

Announces his return to England.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6946

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:
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DCP-LETT-6957

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
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DCP-LETT-7105

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:

Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.

Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7119

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: B80
Summary:

Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.

In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7313

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 87
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7378

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 110: B70–3
Summary:

Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7567

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 and 14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 174
Summary:

Has received CD’s new book [Descent].

Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7683

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 175, 175/2
Summary:

Is reading Descent.

Encloses some answers to CD’s queries about expressions of Laura Bridgman.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7894

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 176
Summary:

AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8004

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 177
Summary:

Has seen CD’s sons.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8194

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 178
Summary:

Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8237

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 179
Summary:

A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8363

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 180
Summary:

Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8381

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: D13–14
Summary:

O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8545

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 181
Summary:

Discusses the coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

AG’s recent tour of the U. S.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8656

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 182
Summary:

CD’s finding the nervous system of Dionaea is wonderful.

Coiling of tendrils of climbing plants.

Thanks CD for the new book [Expression].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8786

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 165: 183; Nature , 27 March 1873, p. 404
Summary:

Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].

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