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DCP-LETT-2488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.20–21)
Summary:

On title of Origin, suggests omitting word "Varieties" altogether if JM does not object. Last proofs corrected, but revises still to do.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Butler
Date:
11 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.168)
Summary:

Inquires about the chances of meeting her when he goes to Ilkley for a cure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2490

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 [Sept 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 21
Summary:

Corrected last proof of Origin yesterday. Still has revises and index to do.

Will read more JDH proofs of Flora Tasmaniae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11621

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[13 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.277
Summary:

Thanks HL for the response to JH's queries [see JH's 1859-9-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
13 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Reports the results of some poultry crossing experiments; comments on transmission of different features.

"My unlucky Book [Origin] will be published 1st week in November."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11183

From:
J. B. Kearney
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.73
Summary:

Has no objection to his letter being communicated to the R.A.S. Comments on his observations. Thanks for his paper on musical pitch. Sees that new copper coinage is to be introduced and hopes that JH will use his influence to introduce the decimal system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12192

From:
E. Moorsom
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.50
Summary:

Thanks for fine basket of venison. Hopes that Lady Herschel is stronger after her visit to the North.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel851

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
15 September [1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.3
Summary:

JH is reorganizing house while MH is away; other family news; MH is comforting someone very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11804

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.164
Summary:

Relates experiences while on a 10 day visit to Ireland. Now waiting for a train to Aberdeen. Professor [Philip?] Kelland injured in rail accident at Hitchin. Comments on the carelessness of railway workers. Agitation again at the Cape over the recall of Sir George Grey. Jack [TM's son?] has received orders for service, perhaps China.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7116

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.333
Summary:

Hears that JH is to inherit Baily's house. Recalls how he first met W. H. Wollaston and Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.169)
Summary:

Thanks CL for his favourable remarks to the Geological Section of the BAAS concerning the forthcoming publication of the Origin. Hopes CL will accept his view of species.

Comments on CL’s paper ["On the occurrence of works of human art in post-Pliocene deposits", Rep. BAAS 29 (1859): 93–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1641

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
21st. Sept 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/653; MS JT/1/HTYP/518, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14731

From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 September 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0922; Reel 1083
Summary:

Shares JB's experiences with visual abnormalities similar to those described in JH's 'Sensorial Vision' (1858). Encloses copy of related subject that JB found in Section 45 of John Locke's 'On the Conduct of the Understanding.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 122)
Summary:

His book [Origin] is nearly done. Is not so silly as to expect to convert WDF. Lyell is wavering; Hooker has come round.

Family news.

Asks WDF to find out if a cross between differently coloured horses produces a dun.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel849

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1859]
Source of text:
JHS 4.1
Summary:

About the impending death of someone they both hold dear; the nature of the Scots, and an inheritance from Elizabeth Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11622

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[23 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.278 (extract 1p Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 {48})
Summary:

Comments on WL's information on telescope construction, and adds some of JH's own experience.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1642

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Saturday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1217; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1923-4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.170)
Summary:

Discusses text of Origin.

Compares Eocene and modern climates.

Mentions Hooker’s view of his geographical [distribution] chapters.

Asks CL’s opinion of his statements on distribution during "glacial and preceding warmer periods".

Mentions chapters on geological record and embryology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4155

From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:

Will allow more pages for the text of JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
26 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/3)
Summary:

Encloses draft in payment for tutoring of sons Francis and Leonard, with thanks for all GVR’s assistance.

Will send his servant for Arum plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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