To ? 12 November 1874
Summary
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717F |
To Williams & Norgate [November 1874 – May 1880]
Summary
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – May 1880] |
Classmark: | Ms Caroline Waid (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028F |
To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8650F |
From T. M. Reade 21 November 1874
Summary
Sends his paper ["Tidal action as a geological cause", Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 2 (1874): 50–72].
Has not yet studied CD’s list of South American molluscs.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9370 |
From G. H. Darwin [8 November 1874]
Summary
Spottiswoode is pressing for an answer to invitation to GHD to lecture at the Royal Institution. GHD is having MS of the paper he has written sent to CD, so that CD can advise whether he should accept the invitation.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9688 |
From T. L. Brunton 2 November [1874]
Summary
CD may keep the photograph of "the holy Mary of Egypt". TLB may have been led away by his imagination in thinking that one side of the face expressed repentance and the other devout joy.
Comments on David Ferrier’s observations on electrical stimulation of the brain. Extent of response relates to intensity of stimulus.
Crichton-Browne’s observations on the asymmetry of convolutions on the two sides of the brains of maniacs.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705 |
To John Fiske 3 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 3 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9706 |
From John Murray 3 November 1874
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 441 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9707 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 November 1874]
Summary
GHD has been using E. Norman [CD’s copyist], and he apologises if this has caused delays to CD’s work.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9708 |
From D. Appleton & Co [c. 19] November 1874
Summary
Accepts CD’s suggestion of new edition of Descent, and asks that Murray supply the stereotype plates and woodcuts for $50 [dollars or pounds!?], as soon as possible; supply of copies of Descent is exhausted.
Will publish CD’s proposed book [Insectivorous plants (1875)] on same terms as other works.
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 19] Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9709 |
To John Murray 5 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.
CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9710 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
To D. Appleton & Co. 5 November 1874
Summary
Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | D. Appleton & Co |
Date: | 5 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9713 |
To W. J. Beal 9 November 1874
Summary
Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William James Beal |
Date: | 9 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Sarah Baker Topper (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9713F |
From F. E. Nipher 10 November 1874
Author: | Francis Eugene Nipher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9714 |
To J. F. McLennan 10 November [1874]
Summary
Will send Alexis Giraud-Teulon’s book [Origines de la famille (1874)], which he has received but not read, if JFM cares to read it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Date: | 10 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 44 no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9715 |
From Herbert Spencer 11 November 1874
Summary
Wishes to know where, in his works, CD refers to some particular behaviour in dogs.
Mentions the sensitivity of cirripedes to passing shadows.
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9716 |
To W. G. Kemp 11 November [1874]
Summary
Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Gustav Kemp |
Date: | 11 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9716F |
From Auguste Forel 12 November 1874
Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9718 |
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