To T. M. Reade 9 May 1874
Summary
Interested in TMR’s investigation of drift. Narrative 1: 545–6 contains catalogue of shells collected. Much struck by marine productions of Tierra del Fuego.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 9 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9450 |
From Henry Cecil 9 April 1874
Summary
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
| Author: | Henry Cecil |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9399 |
To A. C. H. Gordon April 1874
Summary
Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore |
| Date: | Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 8 (1875): 106–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9382F |
From J. V. Carus 15 March 1874
Summary
Proposal to collect all of CD’s works in a German edition. Asks CD’s opinion and suggests an outline of volumes.
Lists German sales of various volumes.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9363 |
From C. S. Tomes [before 16 February 1874]
Summary
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]
| Author: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 16 Feb 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9195 |
From Henry Cecil 21 April 1874
Summary
Affirms his belief in an impassable spiritual gulf between man and the lower creatures.
| Author: | Henry Cecil |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9424 |
To C.-F. Reinwald [12 December 1874]
Summary
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9752A |
From J. V. Carus 27 October 1874
Summary
On German translation of Descent [3d German, 2d English ed.]. Lists some misprints in proofs.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9700 |
To J. V. Carus 30 October 1874
Summary
Will soon send remaining sheets [of Descent, 2d English ed.]. Fears JVC’s errata have come too late for printing.
His new work [Insectivorous plants] will make a rather big book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 112–113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9702 |
From Albert Günther 28 April 1874
Summary
Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9432 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Cecil, Henry | (2) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Gordon, A. C. H. | (1) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Cecil, Henry | (2) |
| Gordon, A. C. H. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
