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DCP-LETT-6567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6)
Summary:

Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.

Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.

Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6591

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 168–9)
Summary:

CD expressed himself badly. F. Jenkin’s argument was against single variations ever being perpetuated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
14 Mar 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 27)
Summary:

Translation of Für Darwin has been published [Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)].

Discusses dimorphic plants, commenting on FM’s observations on Oxalis.

Is greatly interested in Eschscholzia, which seems somewhat more self-sterile in Brazil than in England.

Thinks FM’s grass is "most wonderful".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
18 Mar 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 28)
Summary:

On English edition of Für Darwin; CD’s gratitude and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].

CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Apr 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3)
Summary:

ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.

But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 June [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 186–7); Natural History Museum (Entomology Manuscripts MSS WAL A 1:1 (127-128))
Summary:

On butterfly scales: there are many secondary characters which baffle conjecture.

Was forced to make additions to Origin as short as possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6827

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
12 July 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 232–3)
Summary:

Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
18 July [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29)
Summary:

Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.

The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.

Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
8 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30)
Summary:

Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.

Experiments on self-sterility.

Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].

Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6951

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 Oct 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.

Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
1 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31)
Summary:

Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.

Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.

Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5)
Summary:

Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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