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From E. F. Lubbock [after 7 April 1873?]
Summary
Observations on her pet pug.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8699 |
From E. F. Lubbock [before 7 April 1873]
Summary
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8833 |
To Thomas Davidson 7 April 1873
Summary
Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.
Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Davidson |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.426) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8845 |
From G. H. Darwin to John Tyndall [7 April 1873]
Summary
CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 12 (EH 88205950) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8846 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1873]
Summary
Thinks the Huxley fund should be done. Difficulty will be getting him to accept it.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 153–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8847 |
From Charles Voysey 7 April 1873
Summary
Sends his 6th volume.
| Author: | Charles Voysey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848 |
Author
| Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Davidson, Thomas | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (2) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Davidson, Thomas | (1) |
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … make any such changes to the existing German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 …
- … number of small corrections & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] …
- … that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he …
- … possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … recorded in the distribution of plants. Page 407, par. 2, lines 14–15, insert after ‘now …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 30 hits
- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ( Red notebook , pp. 8e, 10; ‘Beagle’ diary , p. 407). Daniell, John Frederic. …
- … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
- … the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
- … of the voyages . . . London, 1773. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.]. London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October …
- … of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834; …
- … James. Elements of algebra. 8th ed. Cambridge, 1825. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to Catherine Darwin, 5 July [1832] …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Alexander von Humboldt, who wrote a long and appreciative letter about the ‘ excellent et admirable …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Matches: 15 hits
- … On 8 January , he told Hooker: ‘I will write a savage letter & that will do me some good, if I …
- … to the Editor … Poor Murray shuddered again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January …
- … offered to pay the costs for printing an additional 250 ( letter to John Murray, 3 May 1875 ). …
- … & bless the day That ever you were born (letter from E. F. Lubbock, [after 2 …
- … that the originally red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 …
- … pp. 188–90). He drew attention to this discussion in a letter to George Rolleston, remarking on 2 …
- … Darwin wrote, ‘I beg ten thousand pardon & more’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, [ c . February …
- … signed himself, ‘Your affect son … the proofmaniac’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875 …
- … both critical and reverential. On 16 July he received a letter from an advocate of women’s …
- … her presentation copy of Insectivorous plants ( letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 July [1875] ). Such …
- … of my house within the short time I can talk to anyone’ ( letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] ). …
- … despondent, yet benevolent man’ (‘Recollections’, p. 407). Even scientific colleagues could …
- … and had agreed to see him at Down with Thiselton-Dyer ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1875 …
- … lay of hair in eyelashes and on arms, a typically lengthy letter full of personal observations, …
- … examination it was pronounced to be of a ‘high type’ ( letter from Woodward Emery, 17 September …
