From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1872]
Summary
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8675 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 December [1872]
Summary
Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8671 |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8365 |
From M. D. Conway 24 December 1872
Summary
Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8694 |
From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872
Summary
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8351 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 4 May 1872
Summary
CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.
Cranial measurements connect man and apes.
He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8311 |
To Leonard Darwin 26 July [1872]
Summary
CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8435 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Mantegazza, Paolo | (1) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
