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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
26 [June] [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
26 [June 1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.154)
Summary:
Is it fair to take advantage of knowing that Wallace is in the field? Seems hard on CD to lose priority of many years, but does not feel this alters justice of case.
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] has much fever. Frightened because three children in village have died from scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Summary:
Profoundly sorry for Lane.
Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.
Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.
Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 240
Summary:
Darwin responding to Hooker's request for papers. Darwin seems resigned to not to ARW usurping him regarding the explanation of how and why species change over time, "I daresay all is too late. I hardly care about it.—".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Conveys news of the death of Darwin's baby son. References letters received from Hooker regarding the suggestion that they present ARW's paper and Darwin's writings as a joint paper to the Linnaean Society.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 240
Summary:
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
2 July [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116)
Summary:
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 July 1858
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 July 1858
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (20)
Summary:
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 [July 1858]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82)
Summary:
Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 241, 241a
Summary:
Darwin thanks Hooker for reporting that all went well at the Linnean Society and supports Hooker's suggestion that he (Hooker) write to ARW to "exonerate" Darwin.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 241
Summary:
Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 July [1858]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73)
Summary:
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [July] [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 242, 242a
Summary:
Darwin comments that Hooker's letter to ARW is perfect and that he has forwarded it to ARW along with one from himself. Darwin states he had resigned himself to giving up priority regarding evolution by natural selection to ARW but for influence from Lyell and Hooker.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 242
Summary:
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
18 July [1858]
Source of text:
- American Philosophical Society
- American Philosophical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 243
Summary:
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 July [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.155)
Summary:
Thanks for abstract of Etna paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86]. Never expected to see Élie de Beaumont’s theory ["craters of elevation"] so completely upset. "He must have picked out favourable cases for measurement."
More than satisfied by what was done at Linnean Society [joint reading of CD’s and Wallace’s papers: "Tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Intends to prepare longer abstract.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 July 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 244
Summary:
Darwin requests a clean proof (of his abstract?) for ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project