From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [13 May 1872]
Summary
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 May 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8320 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1872]
Summary
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8330 |
From Albert Günther 14 May 1872
Summary
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8329 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8326 |
From W. D. Fox 13 July [1872]
Summary
Will not pass through London, so will not be able to call at Down.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8408 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1872]
Summary
Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8675 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 March 1872
Summary
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 89–90b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8252 |
From John Murray 6 November [1872]
Summary
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8602 |
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- … letter from R. F. Cooke to G. H. Darwin, 13 August 1872 ). According to Freeman 1977 , 7000 were published on 26 November 1872, but two different issues of the text are detectable. William Clowes & Sons were Murray’s printers. Murray’s trade sale took place on Friday 8 November 1872 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 11 …
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
