To H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8134 |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 December [1871]
Summary
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122G |
To E. S. Morse 3 December 1871
Summary
Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8092 |
From H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088F |
To K. T. E. von Siebold 4 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for the letter, photograph, and kind words about CD’s scientific work. [See 8088.]
CTEvS’s view of pseudova is new to CD;
he has not yet received the recent work on parthenogenesis
though he did receive the memoir on Polistes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Museo Nacional de Etnología, Madrid (FD4472) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8094A |
To F. E. E. Wedgwood 19 December [1871]
Summary
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8110 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Morse, E. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (3) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Morse, E. S. | (1) |
| Siebold, C. T. E. von | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
