From James Torbitt 15 December 1880
Summary
Forster cannot help at present. Is sending copies of an enclosure [missing] to Downing Street.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 170, 171/3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12915 |
To T. H. Huxley [7 December 1880]
Summary
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12893 |
To G. J. Romanes 13 December 1880
Summary
Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.
Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.
Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.
Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.
Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12908F |
From Henry Pitman 24 April 1880
Summary
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".
| Author: | Henry Pitman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12589 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 December 1880
Summary
Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.
Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12913 |
From S. H. Haliburton 12 December [1880]
Summary
Writes of the pleasure of seeing him again.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 209–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12907 |
To S. H. Haliburton 22 November 1880
Summary
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12839 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Pitman, Henry | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Williams, S. H. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Pitman, Henry | (1) |
| Torbitt, James | (1) |
