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DCP-LETT-5786

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 160
Summary:

Has read sheets of Variation up to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5833

From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 82
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5851F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013)
Summary:

Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5921

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 161
Summary:

AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].

Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5928

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 162
Summary:

AG is not surprised at popularity of CD’s Variation. Gives some corrections for next edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2563

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 102
Summary:

Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.

Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94)
Summary:

AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.

CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6179

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 163
Summary:

Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6206

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 164
Summary:

CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (98)
Summary:

AG’s coming visit to England.

Hooker’s Presidency of BAAS.

A month at the Isle of Wight has done almost nothing for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6370

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 165
Summary:

Reached Kew last evening.

Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6931

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 170
Summary:

Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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