From Horace Darwin 19 June 1877
Summary
Notes on the position of one of the fallen stones [at Stonehenge].
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11009 |
From Sara Sedgwick Darwin [3 December 1877]
Summary
Describes her and W. E. Darwin’s honeymoon.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267F |
From Leonard Darwin 28 November 1877
Summary
LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11256 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11159 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma and/or Charles Darwin c. 20–5 September 1877
Summary
Description of their English dinner companions at a foreign hotel.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | c. 20-25 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146F |
From A. R. Smith 16 October 1877
Summary
Gives a possible explanation of exceptions to CD’s observation [Descent, ch. 7] that characters correlated with one sex tend to appear late in life.
| Author: | Austin Rogers Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11186 |
From A. R. Wallace 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B132–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10801 |
From E. A. Darwin 2 November [1877?]
Summary
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11223 |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Summary
Would like Price’s address.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
Further objections to "voluntary" sexual selection. Believes that he can explain all the phenomena of sexual ornaments and colours by laws of development aided by simple natural selection.
Excited by Thomas Belt’s "oceanic glacier river-damming" hypothesis. The last paper, "Glacial period in the Southern Hemisphere" in the Quarterly Journal of Science is particularly fine.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B134–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11067 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
From A. R. Wallace 3 September 1877
Summary
Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B136–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11125 |
From E. A. Darwin 31 August [1877]
Summary
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11123 |
From E. A. Darwin 16 January [1877]
Summary
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794 |
To Edward Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor Cambridge University 8 June [1877]
Summary
Is honoured that the Council wish to offer a Grace to the Senate [of the University of Cambridge] conferring upon him an honorary LL.D. degree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Atkinson |
| Date: | 8 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10991 |
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