From Caroline Shuttleworth 27 November [1871–80?]
Summary
Reports peculiar behaviour in a fantail pigeon, which persistently courted a ginger-beer bottle.
Author: | Caroline Jemima (Caroline) Shuttleworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov [1871-80] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13840 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
From L. C. Wedgwood 20 November [1871]
Summary
Displays in turkeys.
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7377 |
To John Phillips [November–December 1871?]
Summary
Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [Nov–Dec 1871?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7404 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 11 November 1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.
Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8039 |
To H. E. Litchfield [after 5] November 1871
Summary
CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [after 5] Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 November 1871
Summary
Will send back proofs of Origin 6th ed.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040F |
To W. E. Darwin [after 5 November 1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8041 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 November 1871]
Summary
Sends comments from himself and Erasmus Darwin on proofs of chapter 7 of Origin 6th ed.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8041F |
To W. E. Darwin [November 1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8042 |
From F. E. Abbot 1 November 1871
Summary
For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;
pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.
Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8043 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 November 1871
Summary
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 404 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8044 |
To John Scott 1 November 1871
Summary
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8045 |
To Osbert Salvin 1 November [1871]
Summary
He appreciates the two specimens [skins of Mergenetta and Aix sponsa], especially the Mergenetta, which as far as sifting is concerned, is a capital link between the shoveller and the common duck. Arrangements for their return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8045A |
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1871
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8046 |
To James Crichton-Browne 2 November [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to observe whether platysma muscle contracts during rigor or shivering fit.
Is just recommencing his essay on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 2 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8047 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 [November 1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 [Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8048 |
From W. E. Darwin [3 November 1871]
Summary
Apologises for not working very quickly on proofs. Comments on Huxley’s theological critique of Mivart.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8048F |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 3 November 1871
Summary
Wishes to translate Expression into Dutch.
Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8049 |
From G. J. Allman 4 November 1871
Summary
Learned of CD’s interest in new facts bearing on origins of specific forms and sends proof sheets of his Monograph on tubularian hydroids [1871–2] stating his views on the descent of existing hydroids from ancient graptolites.
Author: | George James Allman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8050 |
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