To Athenæum 24 January 1880
Summary
[Draft letter that was never sent, headed "First letter disapproved by everybody" in CD’s hand.] Explains that he had, in fact, mentioned in the MS of his part of Erasmus Darwin that Krause had added to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos. During subsequent revision, this mention was accidentally omitted. [Apropos of S. Butler’s charges against CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 24 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–B101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12439 |
To Athenæum 1 February 1880
Summary
[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12449 |
To ? 19 March 1880
Summary
Henry Forbes in a letter to Moseley describes herons on the Keeling Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12538F |
To Nature 9 April [1880]
Summary
Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 9 Apr [1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 15 April 1880, p. 561 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12571 |
To ? 27 April 1880
Summary
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12591 |
To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
To ? 23 October 1880
Summary
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12771 |
To ? 5 November 1880
Summary
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12797 |
To Nature 5 November [1880]
Summary
Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 5 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 November 1880, p. 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12800 |
To Nature [before 30 December 1880]
Summary
Quotes an extract from a letter from Mr Sanderson of Chislehurst on the disappearance of black or spotted sheep from Australian flocks when the coloured sheep ceased to be of use to man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 30 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 30 December 1880, p. 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12955 |
To Nature 22 February [1881]
Summary
Summarises the "remarkable facts about the movements of plants" in Fritz Müller’s letter of January [12996]. CD comments that Müller’s observations support the conclusion that he and Francis Darwin arrived at – that leaves go to sleep to escape the full effects of radiation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 22 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 3 March 1881, p. 409 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13061 |
To Nature 14 April [1881]
Summary
Summarises a letter from Fritz Müller [missing] giving details of leaf movement in Mucuna, Desmodium, and Bauhinia. CD is especially interested in the paraheliotropic movements, which appear to be as common as sleep movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 14 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 28 April 1881, pp. 603–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13117 |
To ? 17 June 1881
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 June 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208 |
To Nature 13 July [1881]
Summary
Communicates two cases of inheritance reported by J. P. Bishop [in 13137]. The work of E. Brown-Séquard has demonstrated that effects of injuries can be inherited ["Hereditary transmission of an epileptiform affection accidentally produced", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 10 (1860): 297–8]. E. Dupuy has sent CD a still more remarkable case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 13 July [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 21 July 1881, p. 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245 |
To ? 18 July 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13248 |
To ? 31 July [1881?]
Summary
Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 July [1881?] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13267 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To ? 20 August 1881
Summary
Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13292 |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13294G |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13296A |
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