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DCP-LETT-13875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Glenbow Museum
Summary:

Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3052F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005)
Summary:

Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13770G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Mar [1860–1]
Source of text:
King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
Summary:

Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 [Apr 1860?]
Source of text:
Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977)
Summary:

August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2832F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
14 June [1860]
Source of text:
University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana)
Summary:

He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860-6-25 or later]
Source of text:
JHS 6.64
Summary:

Comments on the behavior of Sirius with its companion, and on the likelihood of the existence of the inter-Mercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2908F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (14 December 2013, lot 403)
Summary:

Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860-9-18 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0348.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Criticizes point in [recipient's] scheme for issuing bank notes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 May [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 122
Summary:

CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3179F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
Summary:

CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Aug [1861-8]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M)
Summary:

Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13770J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13881A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
J. David Archibald (private collection)
Summary:

"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5418F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Feb [1862-9]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13877F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Summary:

Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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