To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
To J. V. Carus 20 December 1876
Summary
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730 |
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin , [ c. 29 November 1873] and n. 2. CD was a member of the Down School Board until November 1874 (see letter to Down School Board, 19 December 1873 , Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Down School Board, 16 November 1874 , and J. R. Moore 1985 , pp. 471 and 480). Henry Powell was vicar of Down from 1869 until 1871. …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Down School Board | (1) |
