From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 September [1865]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 56-58
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 163-164]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 September 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 275, 275b
Summary:
Darwin refers to ARW's "On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan region".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 or 28] Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 275
Summary:
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:
Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.
Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.
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