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DCP-LETT-3061F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
9 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks for advice about the mortgage to Major Owen for £20,000.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3061A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
13 Feb [1861?]
Source of text:
James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 39)
Summary:

Gives notice of returning books by a carrier and thanks for assistance.

Asks whether Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville’s Ostéographie (1839–64) includes rabbits or hares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3062

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
14 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3062F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30)
Summary:

Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook)
Summary:

Sends cheque.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54)
Summary:

Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.

Insectivorous plants.

Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3063

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169)
Summary:

Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.

Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3063F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 88
Summary:

Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

Ill health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 157); DAR 145
Summary:

Invites Mrs Huxley and the children to spend a fortnight at Down.

MS of Chauncey Wright’s review has not yet arrived.

[P.S. missing from original.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
23 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Sends pamphlet by Asa Gray [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. Hopes AM may get it noticed in any natural history periodical in Edinburgh.

Will send AM a corrected [3d] edition of Origin. AM will find little alteration in the parts he attacked, which, to the best of CD’s judgment, did not seem to require correction. Assures AM that he does not send his new edition out of bravado.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3067

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941)
Summary:

Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.

Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 100)
Summary:

If JM disapproves of inserting CD’s geological works on back of title-page [of Origin, 3d ed.], he should strike them out. CD cares little. Reminds him to insert "additions and corrections" in advertisements. Sends list for presentation copies.

Asks whether his Journal of researches has sold at all satisfactorily.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 29
Summary:

Comments on JL’s Seasons with sea-horses [1861]. Thinks JL bold to defend his bear–whale illustration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would like to borrow WBT’s collection of fowls’ skulls.

Asks for WBT’s opinion of G. Ferguson, the author of a poultry book [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26–7 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a)
Summary:

Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
26 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022)
Summary:

Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.

Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3073F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 131
Summary:

CD expresses his gratification that a geologist of AG’s standing and influence subscribes to the idea of the mutability of species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3889A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
27 [Feb or Mar] 1861
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697)
Summary:

Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Temple
Date:
[c. 28 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8
Summary:

Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]

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