To George Cupples 7 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 7 June [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8936 |
To George Cupples 3 November [1870]
Summary
Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.
Thanks GC for information on the perch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7355 |
To George Cupples 29 May [1868]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 29 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6214F |
To George Cupples 20 September [1870]
Summary
Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.
He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (19 December 2002, lot 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from George Cupples, 17 September 1870 ( Correspondence …
- … George Cupples, 29 April 1870 ). The puppy was called Bran ( Correspondence vol. 18, letter …
- … George Cupples, 14 November 1870 ). Descent was published in early 1871; Cupples’s name appears on CD’s presentation list ( Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix IV). Anne Jane Cupples . The original letter …
From John Graham to George Cupples 6 July 1869
Summary
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.
| Author: | John Graham |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 6 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR A86: 68–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6817F |
From Robert Elliot to George Cupples 21 June 1869
Summary
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
| Author: | Robert Elliot |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 21 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6791 |
To George Cupples 18 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests that Cupples weigh puppies from one week old, rather than two weeks old.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6668F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … between this letter and the letters from George Cupples , 11 March 1869 and 22 March …
- … George Cupples, 22 March 1869 ). In Descent 2: 261–2, CD cited Cupples for information on the relative weights of male and female Scotch deer-hounds, but noted that Cupples began taking measurements when the puppies were a fortnight old. In his letter …
From William Aitchison to George Cupples 25 June 1869
Summary
Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.
| Author: | William Aitchison |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 25 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6804 |
To George Cupples [6–9? January 1869]
Summary
Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | [6–9? Jan 1869] |
| Classmark: | Cupples 1894, p. 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6546F |
From William Aitchison to George Cupples 30 June 1869
Summary
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
| Author: | William Aitchison |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 30 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6809F |
To George Cupples 27 November [1870]
Summary
Bran [deerhound puppy] is thriving; enjoys English life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7383 |
From Allan C. Pagan to George Cupples 16 July 1869
Summary
Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.
| Author: | Allan Cunningham Pagan |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 16 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6831 |
From Robert Elliot to George Cupples 25 June 1869
Summary
Number of lambs born not kept. Counted only at time of castration.
Proportion of sexes in cattle and rats.
| Author: | Robert Elliot |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 25 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6805 |
From William Aitchison to George Cupples 16 June 1869
Summary
Statistics on proportion of sexes in lambs.
| Author: | William Aitchison |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 16 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6784 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from Robert Elliot to George Cupples, 4 June 1869 ). This letter was enclosed in …
- … George Cupples, 20 June 1869 . CD cited Aitchison for this information and for returns on sheep in Descent 1: 305. In the table, the first column (before the point) represents groups of twenty, the second (after the point) units up to nineteen. See letter …
From Robert Elliot to George Cupples 4 June 1869
Summary
Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.
| Author: | Robert Elliot |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 4 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A30–1, A62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6775 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to, June 29/’. See also the letter from John Graham to George Cupples, 6 July 1869 . John …
- … Cupples had offered to find statistics of the proportions of the sexes in various domestic animals for CD (see letter from George …
- … George Cupples Esq | The Cottage | Guard Bridge | Fifeshire 1.1 On … experience; 2.10] crossed pencil 2.1 the Males] square bracket added before, pencil 3.1 The same … Fifeshire 15.1] crossed pencil Top of letter : ‘ …
- … George Cupples, 16 July 1869 ). Allan Cunningham Pagan farmed at Invergeldie, Comrie, Perthshire. Elliot refers to William McCombie . Cupples added, ‘(written to June 23/69) also Tho s . Elliot, Esq. Hyndhope, by Jedburgh (written to June 29). ’ Thomas Elliot farmed at Hindhope, Oxnam, Roxburghshire. He was recommended as a source of information in the letter …
From J. R. G. Barr to George Cupples [after 11 May 1868?]
Summary
Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.
| Author: | John Robert Goodwin Barr |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | [after 11 May 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6527 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … one of the people to whom Cupples had sent CD’s queries on dogs (see letter from George …
- … Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 and n. 3). Barr has written his replies on Cupples’s letter to him, evidently sent on or before 11 May 1868. This letter may have been enclosed with Cupples’s letter to CD of 13 July 1868 , in which Cupples copied other answers to CD’s queries. Sections in square brackets are by Cupples. See letters from George …
To George Cupples 20 November [1869]
Summary
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7000 |
To George Cupples [after June 1869]
Summary
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | [after June 1869] |
| Classmark: | Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6770F |
To George Cupples 28 April [1873]
Summary
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8886 |
From James Rait to George Cupples 20 July 1869
Summary
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
| Author: | James Rait |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: 70–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6838F |
| letter | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Aitchison, William | (3) |
| Elliot, Robert | (3) |
| Barr, J. R. G. | (1) |
| Graham, John (b) | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Aitchison, William | (3) |
| Elliot, Robert | (3) |
| Barr, J. R. G. | (1) |
