From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 112
Summary:
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS. 5406, ff. 167–8)
Summary:
Has read TFJ’s letter on Glen Roy. His arguments seem conclusive. CD gives up the ghost. "My paper is one long gigantic blunder." How rash it is "to argue that because a case is not one thing it must be some second thing which happens to be known to the writer".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.262)
Summary:
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Highley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.315
Summary:
On Monday he should receive the proof of his communication. Comments on this communication and how it will be presented.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project