To Thomas Guthrie? 30 March [1871]
Summary
Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Guthrie |
Date: | 30 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection MS C 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7151 |
From Anne Barnard 30 March 1871
Summary
On reading Descent was reminded of having seen, on a visit to an idiot asylum with her father [J. S. Henslow], a woman with long pointed ears.
Author: | Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7644 |
From John Morley 30 March 1871
Summary
Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.
Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7645 |
letter | (3) |
Barnard, Anne | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Henslow, Anne | (1) |
Morley, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Guthrie, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Barnard, Anne | (1) |
Guthrie, Thomas | (1) |
Henslow, Anne | (1) |
Morley, John | (1) |
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…