From John Higgins 31 July 1852
Summary
Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.
Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484H |
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
To Salt & Son 26 November [1850]
Summary
Inquires about financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Salt & Sons |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1372 |
To Hjalmar Linnström 7 October 1877
Summary
Gives permission to translate Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Hjalmar (Hjalmar) Linnström |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00522) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11172 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 January [1879]
Summary
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11824 |
To John Lubbock 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Local affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40 (EH 88206484) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2817 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1875]
Summary
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10293 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
To Gustavus Fritsche 27 October 1875
Summary
Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustavus Fritsche |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10230 |
To G. J. Romanes 20 [November 1878]
Summary
CD will visit tomorrow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 20 [Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11750 |
To William Herbert [c. 1 April 1839]
Summary
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Date: | [c. 1 Apr 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-502 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
From George Maw 27 August [1861]
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter about GM’s review of the Origin.
Sends instances of correlative organisation and functions which he finds difficult to believe could have accumulated by gradual modifications.
[Letter erroneously dated 1862 by GM.]
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3236 |
From George Henslow 18 May 1866
Summary
Has written his Naudin–hybridism article [Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13]. Would like CD to criticise proofs.
Will return books borrowed from CD.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5095 |
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 th Dear Sir Please to give the Bearer the Feb. No r of the Journal, & I enclose 12 s for the current year. — In case you sh d . be out, I have marked the note to be opened, by M r Charlton; as I am anxious for the Number. — Please to ask M r Charlton for any parcels for me. Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin …
From Caleb Burrell Rose 30 April 1839
Summary
Sends fee for admission to the Geological Society and a signed obligation.
| Author: | Caleb Burrell Rose |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/216) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-507A |
From John Higgins 1 March 1848
Summary
Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1848 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1161 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … r Mason’s request frivolous and unnecessary; I will attend to his wishes by paying him the £5, a year out of your Lady Day Rents instead of at Mich s . which will be £2 10 0 always in advance— there will be no occasion for me keeping any balance in hand. I am | Dear Sir | Your faithful Servant | (Signed) John Higgins C. Darwin …
From H. C. Watson [after 24 July 1861]
Summary
Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13853 |
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