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 |
To H. E. Litchfield 11 [December 1879]
Summary
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 |
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 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 March [1879]
Summary
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 |
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 |
From Wilhelm Behrens 8 November [1879]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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, …
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