From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:
Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1869–71]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 563
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1256
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:
Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.
Reports six-toed pup.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 37
Summary:
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8 January [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 102
Summary:
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[11 January 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 67
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B34–5
Summary:
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 94: 110–11
Summary:
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Jan] 1869
Source of text:
DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3
Summary:
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 103
Summary:
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 51
Summary:
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 1–2
Summary:
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 112–13
Summary:
Finds JDH’s comments of utmost value. Answers some questions, and asks new ones. Transmission of variations. Relation of uniformity of structure to natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond2
- Sotheby's (dealers)2
- The British Library2
- American Philosophical Society1
- English Heritage, Down House, Downe1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1