Mozley, Ann. 1967. Evolution and the climate of opinion in Australia, 1840–76. Victorian Studies 10: 411–30.
From George Henslow [18–30 March 1866]
Summary
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18–30 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5037 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1881
Summary
Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 162–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13291 |
To Francis Boott [3 February 1842]
Summary
"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Boott |
| Date: | [3 Feb 1842] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2006, lot 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617F |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … slight’), 10:30 (‘bad sick & distress’), 2:30 (‘many times’), and 2:00 (‘twice in night’). …
- … DAR 242) for 10 January 1864 recorded ‘copious sickness’ at 9:30 that evening. Francis …
- … 10 [November 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11); see also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. CD wrote the first section of the letter in pencil; Emma Darwin wrote and signed the second section of the letter. For 11 January 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recorded sickness at 8:30 (‘ …
From J. V. Carus 28 May 1871
Summary
Sends corrections for Descent.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 106–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7774 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin [30 April 1876]
Summary
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485B |
From Anthony Rich 30 May 1879
Summary
Speaks of the delight of having met CD.
Hopes William Darwin may be able to visit Worthing.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.12: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12070 |
To James Paget 3 December 1881
Summary
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13526 |
Blake, Charles Carter. 1862a. Past life in South America. Geologist 5: 323–30.
To Alexander von Humboldt 1 November 1839
Summary
Gratified by AvH’s letter.
Sends data on temperature of the sea in the Galapagos, South Pacific, and the Abrolhos Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1839 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Kasten 4, Nr. 22, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-545 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 81 1 2 28th 8. A.M. 28 79 2 3 — 10. A.M 10 to 30 79 1 4 We were rapidly 4. P.M. ditto 79 …
- … 230 . — 82 o Long 36 o .6’W. 4 P.M — 30 — 82. at noon. 10 P.M. — 250 . — 81 o N.B. There …
- … 1 4 P.M 30 . 81 2 3 3 P.M 20 81 2 3 4. PM. 22 81 2 3 5, 6, 7, 8, PM 25 81 1 2 10. P.M. 27 …
- … 30 fathoms. The colour was according to Werners nomenclature, (seen through a narrow orifice) “indigo with a little azure blue”. — 27 th 8 1 2 AM. 180 . 81 o 2 3 — 9. AM. 150 . 81 2 3 Lat 12 o .43’ 10. …
Schmidt, August and Voigt, Bernhard Friedrich. 1824–56. Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen. 30 vols.
To W. C. Marshall 27 December 1877
Summary
Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11291 |
From F. M. Balfour 10 July 1881
Summary
Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13240 |
To Asa Gray 16 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for AG’s trouble about the seeds. Is curious to see their germination and the early seedling growth.
Asks for cotton seeds, as he observes odd movements of the cotyledon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12357 |
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