To ? [1874–5?]
Summary
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9217 |
To ? 1 January 1874
Summary
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9222 |
To ? 3 January 1874
Summary
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9224 |
To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 8 June 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
To Nature 11 February [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 11 Feb [1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9283 |
To ? 11 March 1874
Summary
Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9351 |
To Nature 6 April [1874]
Summary
Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 16 April 1874, p. 460 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9393 |
To ? 12 April 1874
Summary
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405F |
To Nature 18 April [1874]
Summary
CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 18 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 23 April 1874, p. 482 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9418 |
To Nature 7 and 11 May [1874]
Summary
Thanks Nature correspondents for their observations on destruction of primroses [Nature 9 (1874): 509; 10 (1874): 6–7]. Reports an error in his observations: ovules, as well as nectar, are taken by the birds. As the habit of cutting off primrose flowers is widespread, CD concludes it is instinctive in bullfinches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 7 and 11 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Nature, 14 May 1874, pp. 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9444 |
To Donders [after 15 July 1874]
Summary
Wishes he had known of atropia and hopes he will have time to try it next summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 May 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548F |
To ? 12 November 1874
Summary
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717F |
To ? [9 December 1874, 14 December 1875, or 10 January 1877]
Summary
Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724F |
To ? 24 December [1874–81]
Summary
Sends compliments and thanks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874-81] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 21, 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778G |
To Williams & Norgate [November 1874 – May 1880]
Summary
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – May 1880] |
Classmark: | Ms Caroline Waid (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028F |
To Francis Darwin [after 23 July 1874]
Summary
Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13796 |
To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 23 May [1874 or 1875?]
Summary
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 23 May [1874-5] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5098 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
To C. S. Tomes 16 February [1874]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance
Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Date: | 16 Feb [1874] |
Classmark: | Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (Spring 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8216F |
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