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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
CD wishes his son Leonard to try for University this winter and intends sending Horace to a private tutor.
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
Sends Fritz Müller’s address;
disagrees on Mary Barton.
Seeks name of the Mimulus on which he has experimented [see Variation 2: 128].
Requests flowers of yellow variety of Mirabilis jalapa.
Support CD’s views on variability of species, but believes they must be interpreted "spiritualisticamente".
Cross-fertilisation in the Asclepiadaceae.
Variation between individuals of a species.
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Reports on a curious cross in peach varieties, in which the male made a firm large peach into a fruit more almond-like than itself.
JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.
Replies to CD’s queries about expression.
Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
Thanks JVC for his biography [of CD].
Has almost finished first proofs of Variation.
Has difficulty in answering JVC’s queries about dogs because of differences in German names and breeds. Refers him to A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1868] and, on pigeons, to Gottlob Neumeister’s book [Das Ganze der Taubenzucht (1837)].
Hopes JVC is not discouraged by first volume. Thinks second will be more interesting.
AM discusses his new journal [J. Travel & Nat. Hist.] of which general opinion seems to be favourable. Has room for the occasional contributor, if CD knows of any.
AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.
Sends CD cheque for £250, two-thirds of the profits on the sale of 700 copies of Origin, 4th ed.
Hopes he has found a suitable indexer for Variation.
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
Thanks for "pleasant remittance" of £250 for 4th edition of Origin.
Glad to see that Orchids sells a little.
Hopes Variation will be more successful.
Schweizerbart anxious to get Variation sheets for German translation. Hopes he has found a good indexer in W. S. Dallas.
Instructions for the index to Variation
Sends seeds of Viola roxburghiana which produces perfect flowers in the cold season and imperfect ones in the rains, all perfectly fertile.
Leersia has not produced a single perfect flower though it grows freely.
Discusses cockatoos eating various seeds. Finds it difficult to make exact and satisfactory observations.
Appends list of Vandellia species which have perfect flowers.
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.