To Leonard Darwin 26 July [1872]
Summary
CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8435 |
To John Lubbock [after 21 March 1872]
Summary
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [after 21 Mar 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 137–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8128 |
To Leonard Darwin 11 July [1872]
Summary
CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404 |
To J. V. Carus 27 October [1872]
Summary
Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 96–97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8580 |
To John Murray 11 November 1872
Summary
CD is delighted and astonished at sale of Expression,
and pleased with sale of others, except Descent. He fears a new edition of that work may never be required. Would have liked to bring out a thoroughly revised one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 276–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8620 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 and n. 3). Anton Dohrn reviewed Expression in Academy , 2 June 1873, pp. 209–12. Expression was translated into Italian by Giovanni Canestrini and Francesco Bassani (Canestrini and Bassani trans. 1878); no correspondence with them before this date has been found. See also letter from C. I. F. Major, 18 October 1872 . …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Date
| 1872 | (5) |
