Search: letter in document-type 
No in transcription-available 
1860-1869::1863 in date 
Sotheby's (dealers) in repository 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–4 of 4 items

DCP-LETT-3962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
1 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:

Answers TR’s query about stomata.

CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:

Thanks for information on weeping trees; asks for a few weeping elm seeds.

The double peach is in flower; the almond has not flowered; will beg a specimen of fruit later.

Has been unwell.

Tells of Hooker’s admiration for TR’s articles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4072F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Rawson
Date:
2 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184)
Summary:

Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4166A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
14 May [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Is sending photographs of the niata skull [requested in 4082]. W. H. Flower reports that he could have a cast made for £3.3s.0d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available