To Charles Lyell 12 July [1872]
Summary
Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 12 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8405 |
From A. H. Garrod to Francis Darwin 30 June [1872]
Summary
Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright
and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.
| Author: | Alfred Henry Garrod |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8399 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … DAR 165: 10 Alfred Henry Garrod London, Harley St, 11 30 June [1872] Francis Darwin …
- … 30 June 1872] . CD cited Paul Lorain’s work on the pulse ( Lorain 1870 ) in Expression , published in November 1872, in a discussion of the physiological effects of rage; he acknowledged Garrod for supplying him with the reference ( Expression , p. 74 n. 9). CD did not cite Louis Lortet’s work on the circulation of the blood ( Lortet 1867 ) in Expression . In a paper completed on 10 …
- … 30, & commenced putting on the sphygmograph, & when quite ready asked her if she minded being hurt a little, upon which she, being rather of a nervous temperament, jumped up & said she would have nothing done to her at all & wanted to dress & leave immediately. She was very much terrified & it was with great difficulty that we could get her quiet enough to take a trace & we only did so by telling her I did not mean to hurt her at all. At last, she still being very excited & frightened, we took the lower trace & after about 10 …
From Samuel Butler 30 May 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.
Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: A8–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8361 |
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
From R. F. Cooke 1 August 1872
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 411 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8444 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … above the £30. ? A set of Electros of the woodcuts I think we might charge £10, as Cooper’ …
- … 30 March 1872 ). Eduard Friedrich Koch of the Stuttgart publishing firm E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung had requested a formal authorisation for the German translation by Julius Victor Carus (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 July 1872 ). CD did not charge for translation rights, but he sometimes asked for a percentage of the profits (see, for example, letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 10 …
From G. C. Oxenden 8 April 1872
Summary
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
| Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8281 |
From John Murray 2 February [1872]
Summary
Accedes to CD’s request to let Appleton have a set of stereotypes of the 6th English edition of Origin at a little above cost.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 406 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8195 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872]
Summary
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8557 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Summary
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
From Gerard Krefft 30 December 1872
Summary
Has read CD’s latest book and will make observations for CD.
Reports on a monkey that throws things when "angry".
Explains how natives count to more than four; CD incorrect on this point.
Sends photographs of blacks.
Cicadas out in force.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8698 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 1872 My dear Mr Darwin This is a great year for Cicadas & for all kinds of insects the first singing with such energy that people otherwise hard of hearing take notice of them I drove to Lane Cove (north shore) a few days ago but I assure you that there was no possibility of conversing with my companions except by raising the voice considerably—all in consequence of the “ Locusts ” as people call them here. — Many rare Buprestidæ are out also, in fact we have not had so rich a year for some time I think just 10 …
From Frédéric Baudry 4 December 1872
Summary
Sends anecdotes relating to Expression;
criticises CD’s use of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s views on language.
Complains about J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent.
| Author: | Frédéric Baudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 95, 95/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8543 |
Matches: 1 hit
To H. E. Litchfield 25 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for her pains over corrections [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 25 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 August; and ‘Eupha’, Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood , was at Down on 2 August 1872. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that the temperature on 25 July 1872 was 82 degrees Fahrenheit, and that Henrietta and Richard Buckley Litchfield visited Down on Saturday 3 August 1872. W.M.C. : Working Men’s College, sixty or seventy members of which used to take country rambles in the summer. Litchfield wrote that CD and Emma invited the group to tea at Down House from 1873 onwards ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 262). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 30 …
| letter | (12) |
| Baudry, Frédéric | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Garrod, A. H. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Besant, Walter | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Baudry, Frédéric | (1) |
| Besant, Walter | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
