To ? [9 December 1874, 14 December 1875, or 10 January 1877]
Summary
Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724F |
To ? 24 December [1874–81]
Summary
Sends compliments and thanks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874-81] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 21, 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778G |
To William Ogle [4 December 1874, 10 December 1875, 17 December 1875, or 12 January 1877]
Summary
Invites WO to lunch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | [4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 [December 1874 or January 1875?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9221 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 December 1874?]
Summary
Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Dec 1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9719F |
To J. D. Hooker 2 December [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 349 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9739 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 December [1874]
Summary
Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9741 |
To Thomas Belt 3 December [1874]
Summary
Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | 3 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9742 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 December 1874
Summary
Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.
Describes other work in progress.
Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9743 |
From A. R. Wallace 6 December 1874
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Descent.
His work on geographical distribution; drudgery and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9744 |
From W. G. Walker 6 December 1874
Summary
On voluntary vomiting. Dogs re-swallow vomited food.
Author: | William Gregory Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9745 |
To G. H. Darwin [6 December 1874]
Summary
Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9746 |
To G. J. Romanes [7 December 1874]
Summary
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [7 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9747 |
From T. H. Huxley 8 December 1874
Summary
K. G. Semper’s article ["On the relationship of the Vertebrata and Annelida", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 (1875): 94–5] is ill-natured. Misinterprets facts already discovered by F. M. Balfour.
Has been working on Amphioxus. Puts his theory of vertebrate skulls on firm footing at last.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 234–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9748 |
To John Fiske 8 December [1874]
Summary
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 8 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9749 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 December 1874
Summary
Delighted with Farrer’s assistance. A. Helps has also spoken to Sir S. Northcote.
JDH is getting on well but has periods of great depression.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 232–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9750 |
To F. C. Noll 8 December [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Carl Noll |
Date: | 8 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Historische Sammlungen EH 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9750F |
To G. J. Romanes [9 December 1874]
Summary
Invites GJR to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [9 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9751 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 10 December 1874
Summary
Sends French translation of Journal of researches and will send the £20 due to CD when 750 copies have been sold.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9752 |
To C.-F. Reinwald [12 December 1874]
Summary
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Date: | [12 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9752A |
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