From Asa Gray 10 and 14 March [1871]
Summary
Has received CD’s new book [Descent].
Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 and 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7567 |
To C. V. Riley 8 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for letter of introduction for his sons visiting America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 8 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (15 January 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7854F |
From H. B. Brady 18 October 1871
Summary
On visit to Boston was told by N. S. Shaler how habits of rattlesnake are consistent with natural selection. Informs CD, as rattlesnake is considered by some a difficult case for his theory.
| Author: | Henry Bowman Brady |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8015 |
From Thomas Meehan 10 February 1871
Summary
Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].
TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7479 |
To Chauncey Wright 28 October 1871
Summary
Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.
Grateful for kindness to sons in America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8033 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1871
Summary
Has seen CD’s sons.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8004 |
To L. H. Morgan 14 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks LHM for his introductions for CD’s sons and for his instructions about their route [for their U. S. visit].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Date: | 14 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7819 |
To S. R. S. Norton 23 November [1871]
Summary
Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.
Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8083 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 October 1871
Summary
Has completed corrections for Origin [6th ed.], but has received no proofs. Hopes it will be published without delay.
Has been reflecting on Murray’s suggestion to stereotype the Origin. Sees advantage in that it will make him stop additions and changes in style. Inquires whether each separate sheet is stereotyped and can be altered.
Asks whether any copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 232–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8034 |
To Chauncey Wright 17 July [1871]
Summary
Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 17 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7869 |
To J. D. Caton 20 July 1871
Summary
Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Dean Caton |
| Date: | 20 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.402) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7875 |
From George Cupples 21 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7502 |
From Chauncey Wright 11 October 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
His memoir on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415] will soon be printed.
Has met CD’s sons.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8002 |
From J. W. Clark 31 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.
Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.
| Author: | John Willis Clark |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7919 |
From Henry Gillman 31 October 1871
Summary
Sends details of his discoveries of relics and bones of the "mound-builders", and Jeffries Wyman’s comments on them.
| Author: | Henry Gillman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8038 |
From G. H. Darwin [14 May 1871]
Summary
Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7757 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From S. R. S. Norton 20 November [1871]
Summary
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
| Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8079 |
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- … between August and October 1871 ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 July [1871] ). Susan’s brother …
- … Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ).The novelist has not been identified. Shady Hill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the family home of the Nortons ( J. Turner 1999 , p. 2). Evidently Charles Norton’s mother, Catherine Eliot Norton . Langweilig : boring. The comet was named after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati, who observed it on 2 June 1858. Norton probably refers to a long, curved ink blot on the second page of the letter. …
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
From John Fiske 23 October 1871
Summary
JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]
| Author: | John Fiske |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | J. S. Clark 1917, 1: 389–91; DAR 164: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8030 |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
