From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 September 1870
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7313 |
From Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya and V. O. Kovalevsky 1 September 1870
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to order books from the Royal Society Library.
VOK asks for information about W. B. Carpenter’s dredging expedition in the Porcupine.
Author: | Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7314 |
From W. W. Reade 3 September 1870
Summary
Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.
Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7315 |
To John Murray 4 September [1870]
Summary
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7316 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 September [1870]
Summary
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7317 |
From John Tyndall 7 September 1870
Summary
Sends CD proofs of a lecture he will give at Liverpool. Asks CD to check the part referring to him.
Élie de Beaumont’s remark, in which he requires CD to recant before being admitted to the [French] Academy, is intolerable. "This spirit has much to do with the present condition of France."
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7318 |
To John Tyndall 8 September 1870
Summary
CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.
He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".
CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 8 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7319 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 September 1870
Summary
Requests a copy of [Living] Cirripedia to send to his brother, Alexander, who is working in Naples and wishes to verify CD’s discovery of complementary males.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7320 |
From George Cupples 17 September 1870
Summary
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7321 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September 1870
Summary
Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7321F |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 20 September 1870
Summary
Thanks for Cirripedia. Sorry CD has had to buy the books.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322 |
To George Cupples 20 September [1870]
Summary
Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.
He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 20 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (19 December 2002, lot 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322F |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1870
Summary
Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.
Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.
George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].
Murchison.
Lyell.
Has done an immense lot of work.
Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 57–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7323 |
From Edward Livingston Youmans 25 September 1870
Summary
Concerning an American edition of Descent by Appleton’s.
Author: | Edward Livingston Youmans |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 183: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7324 |
From E. L. Youmans 25 September 1870
Summary
A note to inform CD that ELY has sent his earlier letter [7324] to the Athenaeum, being unsure of CD’s address.
Author: | Edward Livingston Youmans |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 183: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7325 |
From Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky 25 September 1870
Summary
Outlines the evidence for his view that ascidian larvae are true vertebrates presented in his paper ["Weitere Studien über die Entwicklung der einfachen Ascidien", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 7 (1871): 101–302]. CD can cite this as confirmation of AOK’s earlier claims.
Author: | Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Александр Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7326 |
To John Murray 26 September 1870
Summary
Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 26 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7327 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September [1870]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.
Huxley’s address.
Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".
Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.
Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.
Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 181–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7328 |
From John Murray 28 September [1870]
Summary
Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.
Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 378 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7329 |
To Hermann Settegast 29 September 1870
Summary
Thanks HS for a copy of his book [? Die Thierzucht (1868)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast |
Date: | 29 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101, Bl. 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7330 |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
Youmans, E. L. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Settegast, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Youmans, E. L. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Kovalevskaya, S. V. | (1) |
Kovalevsky, A. O. | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Settegast, Hermann | (1) |