To ? 10 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7747 |
To Luigi Pomba 10 May 1871
Summary
Has no objection to LP’s replacing Loescher in publishing an Italian translation of Descent. Murray will give proper authorisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Luigi Pomba |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 46–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7748 |
To John Murray 10 May [1871]
Summary
CD is perplexed about illustrations for Expression, i.e., whether photographs are better than woodcuts. He thinks photographs, but does not know which process is preferable. Asks JM to inquire.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 10 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 278–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7749 |
From John Murray 10 May 1871
Summary
Offers CD same payment for the 3d issue of Descent as for 2d.
Has bespoke four better drawings of birds in case a 4th issue is needed.
Vanity Fair wants CD’s portrait by Carlo Pellegrini ["Ape"].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 398 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7750 |
From J. W. Spengel 10 May 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter referring to JWS’s bibliographical paper ["Darwinian bibliography", Z. Ethnol. 3 (1871): 56–67]. Will be glad to inform CD of any additions to the list and would be grateful for information on future publications.
| Author: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7751 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 10 May 1871
Summary
Paris is in the hands of "brigands and socialists", but one grows accustomed to sporadic bombardment,
and VOK is peacefully studying invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Reports on Paul Gervais’ successful cross between a Triton and an axolotl.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7752 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Spengel, J. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Pomba, Luigi | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Pomba, Luigi | (1) |
| Spengel, J. W. | (1) |
