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To E. S. Morse   21 October 1879

Summary

Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].

Remarks on progress of Japan.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:  21 Oct 1879
Classmark:  Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12265

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  • … E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Oct 1879 Edward …

To H. E. Litchfield   11 [December 1879]

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Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  11 [Dec 1879]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12353

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  • … The Darwins had returned from London, where they had been staying with E. A. Darwin, on 11

To C. M. C. Darwin   24 March 1879

Summary

Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:  24 Mar 1879
Classmark:  The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11950F

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  • … Erasmus Alvey Darwin . See letters from E. A. Darwin, 8 March [1879] and 11 March [1879] . …

From E. A. Darwin   11 March [1879]

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Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 105: 108–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11923

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  • … From E.  A.  Darwin   11 March [1879] …
  • E.  A.  Darwin, 8 March [1879] and n. 6. The journal Kosmos had been founded with a view to promoting research related to Darwinian evolutionary theory; for more on the founding of the journal, see Daum 1998 , pp. 359–69 (see also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Ernst Krause, 11

To Ernst Krause   14 March 1879

Summary

Pleased to hear that EK agrees to CD’s request to have article on Erasmus Darwin translated. Will wait for EK’s enlargement. Has decided submission to Fortnightly Review would be useless.

Warns against Anna Seward’s biography of Dr Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  14 Mar 1879
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36176)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11932

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  • … Krause, 9 March 1879 , and letter from E. A. Darwin, 11 March [1879] ). In his letter of …

To Francis Galton   22 March 1879

Summary

Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.

Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Asks about family letters.

Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  22 Mar 1879
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11947

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  • Darwin to Reimarus that he was sent in 1877 by Edward Henry Sieveking (the copies are in DAR 227.1: 12–13; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to E. H. Sieveking, 11

From Wilhelm Behrens   8 November [1879]

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Sends copy of his article ["Die Nectarien der Blüthen", Flora 62 (1879): 2–11, 17–27, 49–54, 81–90, 113–23, 145–53, 233–40, 241–7, 305–14, 369–75, 433–8, 449–57].

GWJB’s experiments inspired by reading CD’s botanical works.

Author:  Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Nov [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 124
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12300

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  • 11, 17–27, 49–54, 81–90, 113–23, 145–53, 233–47, 305–14, 369–75, 433–57. Bronn, Heinrich Georg and Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1876. Über die Entstehung der Arten durch natürliche Zuchtwahl oder die Erhaltung der begünstigen Rassen im Kampfe um’s Dasein. By Charles Darwin. 6th edition. (German translation of Origin 6th edition. ) Stuttgart: E. …

From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley   12 November [1879]

Summary

ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:  12 Nov [1879]
Classmark:  Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12314F

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  • E. Darwin, [9 November 1879] and enclosure). Olmsted had served as head of the US Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War and had created a relief system to distribute medicine and clothing to the Union army ( ANB ). CD and Emma had also been impressed by Olmsted’s writing on the southern states of the US before the abolition of slavery (see, for example, Olmsted 1860 , Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 21 July [1861] and n. 13, and Correspondence vol. 11, …