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From:
Daniel Hanbury
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 May 1859
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS5304
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 14
Summary:
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
6 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.57–57A)
Summary:
CD is convinced that the suggestions [for the Origin?] of both Lyell and Whitwell Elwyn are impracticable.
Will send first six chapters of MS next week. Has taken such pains with it that he hopes corrections will not be heavy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. Gebendinger
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 May 1859
Source of text:
J59/4856, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.328
Summary:
What does he make of the accompanying quotation from Amerigo Vespucci?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 May 1859
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 55, p.2060
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Royal Literary Fund
Date:
10 May 1859
Source of text:
British Library, Western Manuscripts, Loan 96 RLF 1/628/20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Matwei Matwejewitsch Gussew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.151
Summary:
Had a card to visit Greenwich Observatory the same day as he received JH's letter so was unable to visit him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.56–57)
Summary:
Sends first six chapters [of Origin] for the press. Asks JM to urge printer to keep well ahead of CD so as not to waste time. This is important for his health’s sake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 May 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/1434, unit 3, p. 198, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 May 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 15
Summary:
Darwin delighted at Asa Gray's reaction to Darwin and Wallace 1858.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
E. G. Henderson & Son
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 May 1859
Source of text:
L59/8756, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 15
Summary:
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
11 May 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/95
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.148
Summary:
Sending a section of their new atlas of the world, which includes some new features. Would like JH's comments. Will send the complete work when published if JH would like to see it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
13 May 1859
Source of text:
BL Burdett-Coutts papers
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[13 May 1859]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H696
Summary:
On some changes to the report on paper by William Pole [see JH's 1859-4-24]. Describes some experiments carried out with colored 'prismatic' light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
Asks permission to include JH on R.S.L. committee, headed by C. J. Selwyn (relative of George Peacock) and Dr. Beale, to purchase portrait of Peacock from artist Douglas Blakiston. Self-recording magnetic instruments have reached Washington safely.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 May [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.40–40A)
Summary:
Approves specimen sheet [of Origin]. Sorry book will be so long. Has now written half of last chapter; it is as long as his estimate of the entire chapter. Now thinks it will run to 6000 or 7000 words. Will do his utmost to improve his style. Anxious to publish soon; he knows of two men already writing on the subject, starting from his Linnean Society paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Will send a diagram for the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
- Balfour, John1
- Berthon, Peter Henry1
- Clark, James1
- Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett2
- Darwin, W. E.4
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- Debus, Heinrich1
- Decaisne, Joseph1
- Faraday, Michael4
- Gray, Asa1
- Herschel, John12
- Hooker, J. D.7
- Hooker, William1
- Horne, George1
- Mason, John1
- Moore, John2
- Mueller, Ferdinand von8
- Murray, John (b)6
- Nelson, Jr., Thomas1
- O'Shanassy, John7
- Roscoe, Henry Enfield1
- Royal Literary Fund1
- Somerville, Mary1
- Stokes, George Gabriel3
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
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