To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
To F. P. Cobbe 28 November 1872
Summary
FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.
Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.
Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 386) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8652 |
To F. P. Cobbe? 18 March [1873?]
Summary
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8814 |
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
To Frances Power Cobbe 23 March [1870?]
Summary
Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.
Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7145 |
