To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7342 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. 1011 (21 May 1882) front page. J van Wyhe, …
Hunt for new letters: last chance!
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Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although we already know of more than 15,000 letters that Darwin exchanged with nearly 2000 correspondents around the world, letters continue to come to light in both…
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- … Think you know of a letter to or from Darwin that we haven’t found? Let us know! Although …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … the president. London. [Other eds.] [Abstract in DAR 91: 10–11.] 119: 3a Riccoboni, …
