From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
From G. H. Darwin 3 March 1879
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11914 |
From A. R. Leeds 4 March 1879
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Author: | Albert Ripley Leeds |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11915B |
From E. A. Darwin 8 March [1879]
Summary
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B2; DAR 105: B105, B110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11918 |
From E. A. Darwin [8 March 1879?]
Summary
Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Mar 1879?] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B2, DAR 105: B110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11919 |
From C. H. Browning 10 March 1879
Summary
Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.
Author: | C. H. Browning |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11922 |
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 |
From Ernst Krause 12 March 1879
Summary
Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11925 |
From Alexander Dick-Cunyngham 12 March 1879
Summary
Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.
Author: | Alexander Dick-Cunyngham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11926 |
From Robert McLachlan 13 March 1879
Summary
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Author: | Robert McLachlan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11930 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 March [1879]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11931 |
From W. S. Dallas 14 March 1879
Summary
Offers to translate [E. Krause’s] "Erasmus Darwin" for £10.
Thanks CD for signing his certificate for the Royal Society.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11935 |
From W. S. Dallas 15 March 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11937 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 March 1879
Summary
Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11940 |
From Ernst Krause 17 March 1879
Summary
Had doubts about excerpt from Anna Seward’s book [Life of Dr Darwin]. Sends slightly enlarged version of his "Erasmus Darwin". Includes footnote denouncing Seward’s book.
Finds that part 2 of ED’s Botanic garden, 2d ed. (1790), appeared before part 1 (1791).
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11942 |
From Ernst Krause 24 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11949 |
From L. A. Errera 25 March 1879
Summary
Sends his photograph as requested.
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11951 |
From Frederick King 25 March 1879
Summary
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Author: | Frederick King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11952 |
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Krause, Ernst | (21) |
Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |
Darwin, Reginald | (10) |
Torbitt, James | (9) |