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To W. B. Tegetmeier   25 April [1871]

Summary

Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  25 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7713

To Hinrich Nitsche   25 April [1871]

Summary

Thanks HN for photographs of his ears and one showing the form of the ears in a foetal orang. He will show them to a wood-engraver when a new edition of Descent is called for [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 17].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hinrich Nitsche
Date:  25 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Sondersammlungen (Sammlung Liebeskind/XI/29)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7714

To J. V. Carus   25 April [1871]

Summary

Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.

Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.

Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  25 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7715

To Henry Johnson   25 April [1871?]

Summary

Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".

Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Johnson
Date:  25 Apr [1871?]
Classmark:  Catherine Barnes (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7718