To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
From W. E. Darwin [April 1871?]
Summary
J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7048 |
From C. L. Balch [after 15 April 1871]
Summary
CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and
CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.
Author: | Charles Leland Balch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 15 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7408 |
From E. J. Pfeiffer [before 26 April 1871]
Summary
Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.
Author: | Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7411 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
From Frank Chance [before 25 April 1871]
Summary
His beard is darker than his hair, an exception to CD’s rule in Descent [2: 319]. Encloses sample of his hair, beard, and whiskers.
Author: | Frank Chance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7522 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 25 April 1871]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7523 |
To Frederic Harrison 1 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic Harrison |
Date: | 1 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7650 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin 1 April 1871
Summary
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 1 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 68–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651 |
To F. J. Wedgwood [after 1 April 1871?]
Summary
Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | [after 1 Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651F |
From J. E. Gray 2 April 1871
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7652 |
From E. B. de Fonblanque 2 April 1871
Summary
Encloses notes that illustrate apparent intelligent reasoning by a dog which tricked an adversary, and by an elephant peaceably enduring a painful operation.
Author: | Edward Barrington de Fonblanque |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7653 |
From A. F. Boardman 3 April 1871
Summary
Apologises for shortcomings of his argument in earlier letters, explaining he has had little scientific education, but a life-long interest in progressive development. Resumes theorising.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7654 |
From C. M. C. Darwin 3 April 1871
Summary
A friend with similar interests has asked to be introduced to CD, as he has some facts that will amuse him.
Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7655 |
From J. E. Gray 3 April 1871
Summary
Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7656 |
From Hubert Airy 3 April 1871
Summary
Comments on discussion of residual organs in Descent [ch. 1].
Describes his ability to contract the platysma myoides at will.
Suggests reason for loss of voluntary movement of ears in men and monkeys.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7657 |
From James Crichton-Browne 3 April 1871
Summary
Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.
Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7658 |
To Hubert Airy 5 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 5 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7659 |
From David Wedderburn 6 April 1871
Author: | David Wedderburn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 163, 167–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7660 |
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Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Balch, C. L. | (1) |
Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Davis, E. J. | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Elliott & Fry | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Fraser, George | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Harrison, Frederic | (1) |
Hoare, J. N. | (1) |
Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
Knight, J. P. | (1) |
Köppen, F. T. | (1) |
Le Couteur, John | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Morley, John | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Nature | (1) |
Nitsche, Hinrich | (1) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Pfeiffer, E. J. | (1) |
Preyer, William | (1) |
Stevenson, Louisa | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Woolner, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (6) |
Galton, Francis | (4) |
Gray, J. E. | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |