To Edward Frankland 29 May [1879]
Summary
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 29 May [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10001A |
To Grant Allen 2 [May] 1879
Summary
Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | 2 [May] 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11967 |
To Ernst Krause 5 [May] 1879
Summary
Thinks it better to send proofs of his preface [to Erasmus Darwin] rather than MS – he always corrects proofs heavily. Doubts that it is worth translating into German – it is written for the English public. Supposes EK will not object to a French translation and an American edition of the little book. Has written a dozen pages during a break
in his experimental work [on movement of plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 5 [May] 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978 |
To Ernst Krause 2 May 1879
Summary
CD is leaving home for three weeks’ rest. If EK finishes his life of Dr Darwin while CD is away, asks him to send the MS to W. S. Dallas for translation. CD will begin his preface, but needs rest and will not do much until he returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 2 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12024 |
To Reginald Darwin 2 May 1879
Summary
Leaves home on 6th for a rest.
Will commence writing Erasmus Darwin.
Apologises for keeping RD’s various books for so long a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12025 |
To James Torbitt 3 May 1879
Summary
Encourages JT’s experiments. His case of flowering of black potatoes is curious. CD surprised that they are odoriferous and visited by bees. This letter was thought to be to David Moore, because it was in the private collection of a descendant, but is extremely close to a draft to JT on the letter from JT, 30 April 1879 (DCP-LETT-12020). It is not known how it passed from JT to David Moore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 3 May 1879 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin (DSS/DM/1/1/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12027 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 3 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12028 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12033 |
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
To John Fordyce 7 May 1879
Summary
Believes it absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and evolutionist; gives the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards CD’s own views, his judgement often fluctuates but "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God". Thinks that "generally (and more and more as I grow older) … an Agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fordyce |
Date: | 7 May 1879 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12041 |
To Ernst Krause 9 May [1879]
Summary
Answers EK’s queries about Erasmus Darwin’s friends and relations. Will rectify Anna Seward’s false account of Dr Darwin’s conduct. Advises EK to leave to him the account of the Darwin family. Declines EK’s offer to allow CD to alter his MS. Fears repetition in the two essays. They can judge how best to present the material when they have seen each other’s manuscripts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 9 May [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12042 |
To H. A. Pitman [13 May 1879]
Summary
Appreciates award of the Baly Medal and hopes to attend ceremony on 26 June.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Alfred Pitman |
Date: | [13 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12047 |
To G. H. Darwin [11 May 1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [11 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12049 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 May 1879
Summary
CD astonished at receiving the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 May 1879 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12050 |
To Ernst Krause 13 May 1879
Summary
Assures EK he will lose no time in writing his essay [on Erasmus Darwin].
A book by Samuel Butler on Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck has been announced [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. Will have a copy sent to EK.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 13 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12051 |
To Ernst Krause 14 May 1879
Summary
Assures EK that he will not change his mind about publishing a translation of EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. It is unfortunate that Samuel Butler should have published [Evolution, old and new] just then, but that does not change CD’s determination.
Butler is clever, but knows no science. His views that cells have memory and the power of wishing – even if correct – cannot explain how they could change themselves chemically or structurally.
EK can do anything he likes with CD’s preface [to Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 14 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12052 |
To G. H. Darwin 15 May [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 15 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12054 |
To E. J. Collings 25 May [1879]
Summary
Refers EJC to papers by G. J. Romanes ["Animal intelligence", Nineteenth Century 4 (1878): 653–72] and William James ["Brute and human intellect", J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–76] on the mind of animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward James Collings |
Date: | 25 May [1879] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12061 |
To Grant Allen 26 May [1879]
Summary
Has GA seen an article on GA’s Colour-sense by a great man, J. R. L. Delboeuf, in Revue Scientifique 24 May 1879? It has pleased CD greatly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | 26 May [1879] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12062 |
To Ernst Krause 27 May 1879
Summary
CD’s preface [for Erasmus Darwin] is delayed by his sitting for a portrait.
Explains to EK why he feels unable to contribute articles to Kosmos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 27 May 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36185) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12063 |
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Allen, Grant | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Collings, E. J. | (1) |
Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
Darwin, Reginald | (2) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
Fordyce, John | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Gaertner, Albin | (1) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (6) |
Pitman, H. A. | (1) |
Richardson, B. W. | (1) |
Stokes, G. G. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
Krause, Ernst | (6) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Darwin, Reginald | (2) |