To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
From Emma Darwin to V. L. Isitt [before 17 September 1871]
Summary
Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Virginia Lavinia Isitt |
Date: | [before 17 Sept 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7410 |
DCP-LETT-7920
Author: | Margaret Emily Gaskell |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [Sept 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7920 |
To George Busk 2 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 2 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7921 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 September [1871]
Summary
An affectionate letter to HL on her honeymoon. Urges her to keep her mother as an example.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 4 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7922 |
From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Summary
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
To F. E. Abbot 6 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s views [on religion] are far from clear. He cannot make up his mind how far an inward conviction that there must be some Creator or First Cause is really trustworthy evidence. Does not feel he has thought deeply enough to express himself publicly on religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 6 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7924 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
To Anton Dohrn 8 September 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his name on the list of naturalists to whom annual report [on zoological station] should be sent.
His health has been very bad for last six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 8 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926 |
To Otto Kratz 8 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for sending the photographs of hairy people at the Burmese court.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Kratz |
Date: | 8 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926F |
From Wallis Nash 9 September 1871
Summary
In hunting dogs behavioural and physical traits are often inherited together and from either male or female parent.
Author: | Wallis Nash |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7928 |
From H. Ramu 9 September 1871
Summary
Informs CD that there are goats at Nancy with maxillary appendages similar to those of the ancient Irish pig [see Variation 1: 75].
Author: | H Ramu |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929 |
From H. E. Litchfield 9 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929A |
From George Busk 10 September 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries about the homologies of the avicularian and vibracular organs of Polyzoa and gives examples of gradations between the two.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7930 |
From E. A. Darwin 10 September [1871]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7931 |
To Alexander Agassiz 10 September [1871 or 1873]
Summary
Discusses exchange of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871 or 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932 |
To Osbert Salvin 10 September [1871]
Summary
CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932A |
To Chauncey Wright 12 September 1871
Summary
CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.
Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7933 |
To Wallis Nash 12 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for facts relating to inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
Date: | 12 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7934 |
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