From W. E. Darwin [3 March 1872]
Summary
Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Mar 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8220 |
From W. E. Darwin [4 January 1872]
Summary
Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Jan 1872] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8141F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Your affect son | W. E Darwin The field I mentioned in my letter is a failure I will …
- … between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 January [1872] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … diagram (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 January [1872] ). In 1872, …
- … from W. E. Darwin, [1 January 1872] ( Correspondence vol. 20). In the same letter, William …
From E. A. Darwin 11 December [1872]
Summary
Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8671 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1872]
Summary
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1872] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8250F |
From Charles Nordhoff 27 February 1872
Summary
Reports the case of a cockerel raised in isolation from other cocks which repeatedly attempted, but failed, to crow properly.
Also discusses behaviour in horses; one male will "look after" 20–25 females.
| Author: | Charles Nordhoff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8225 |
From W. E. Darwin [3 November 1872]
Summary
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1872] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8593F |
From M. D. Conway 24 December 1872
Summary
Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8694 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1872]
Summary
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8675 |
From David Forbes 1 March 1872
Summary
Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8233 |
From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872
Summary
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8351 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 November [1872]
Summary
Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8636 |
Matches: 2 hits
From J. D. Dana 23 May 1872
Summary
JDD is sending a copy of his book, Corals and coral islands [1872], with his compliments.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | Gilman 1899, p. 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8349 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 13 September 1872
Summary
J. J. Moulinié is ill in Geneva, but translations of Origin and Descent progress.
Will undertake to publish translation of Expression.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8520 |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8365 |
From B. J. Sulivan 20 June 1872
Summary
Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.
Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8393 |
From Paolo Mantegazza 4 May 1872
Summary
CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.
Cranial measurements connect man and apes.
He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.
| Author: | Paolo Mantegazza |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8311 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter in its original French, see pp. 181–2. For the diploma, see Correspondence vol. 20, Appendix III. Origin 6th ed. There are three essays by Mantegazza, printed continuously and bound in green paper, in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; their titles are: ‘Dei caratteri sessuali del cranio umano’ (Sexual characteristics of the human skull), ‘Il cranio di una donna microcefala e …
From W. W. Reade 16 February 1872
Summary
Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8215 |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
