skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
1871::03::09 in date disabled_by_default
1871::03::09 in date disabled_by_default
1871::03::09 in date disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
4 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Emile Alglave   9 March 1871

thumbnail

Summary

Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.

Author:  Émile Alglave
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7558

From John Murray   9 March [1871]

Summary

JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 391
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7559

To Hensleigh Wedgwood   9 March 1871

thumbnail

Summary

Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:  9 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 64–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7560

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [after 9 March 1871]

thumbnail

Summary

Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 9 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 60–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7562
Search:
in keywords
2 Items

3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

Summary

< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1869, and which in summer 1871: the indication in Darwin’s letter, quoted above, that one of the …
  • … frame) in The Gardeners’ Chronicle (6 March 1875), p. 309, illustrating an article on Darwin’s …

3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo

Summary

< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … the photographs, including one of Darwin. However, in a letter to Wallich of 18 April 1869, Darwin …
  • … marine biology. He sent a copy to Darwin, who responded in a letter full of questions and comments …
  • … The Gardener’s Chronicle , n.s. 3:62 (6 March 1875), p. 309. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, pp. 142, …