From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12385 |
To Maria [1871–82]
Summary
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12386 |
From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12387 |
From R. H. Wedgwood [1871–82]
Summary
An instance of long memory in a horse.
Author: | Rowland Henry Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | Romanes 1882a, p. 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855A |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
From C. H. Thiebout [1871]
Summary
As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].
Author: | Carel Hendrik Thiebout |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6523 |
To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1871 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
From William Turner [1871?]
Summary
Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7414 |
From O. G. Rejlander [1871]
Summary
Observations on expression.
Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 189: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7418 |
To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 January [1871]
Summary
Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7427 |
From Francis Wedgwood 4 January 1871
Summary
Depth of furrows in old field.
Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7428 |
From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
Summary
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
From A. F. Boardman 8 January 1871
Summary
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7431 |
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
From Francis Wedgwood 9 January 1871
Summary
Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.
Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7433 |
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
Summary
Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.
Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7435 |
To J. B. Innes 13 January 1871
Summary
CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 13 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7439 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 January [1871]
Summary
Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].
He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.
His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.
Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7442 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (5) |
Reade, W. W. | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (5) |
Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
John Murray | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (10) |
Cooke, R. F. | (6) |
John Murray | (6) |
Innes, J. B. | (4) |
Reade, W. W. | (4) |
Maria | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Bowman, William | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Francis | (2) |
Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Pryor, M. R. | (1) |
Quetelet, Adolphe | (1) |
Rejlander, O. G. | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique | (1) |
Thiebout, C. H. | (1) |
Turner, William | (1) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
Wedgwood, R. H. | (1) |
Wilson, Erasmus | (1) |