From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait 22 July [1875]
Summary
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10087 |
To H. A. Huxley 28 July 1875
Summary
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Date: | 28 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to …
- … your children. With kind remembrance to M r Huxley Yours affectionately | Francis Darwin …
- … signatures to a statement supporting Francis Darwin’s election to the Linnean Society (see …
- … According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), it did rain on 15 July. Francis had moved to …
To J. D. Hooker 25 July 1875
Summary
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 389 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10091 |
From D. F. Nevill 13 [July 1875]
Summary
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [July 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10063 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 July 1875
Summary
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10095 |
From T. S. Baynes 8 July 1875
Summary
Asks CD to write short article on breeds and breeding for new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Huxley has suggested natural history topics to be covered, and recommended CD.
| Author: | Thomas Spencer Baynes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10052 |
To R. F. Cooke 4 July [1875]
Summary
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 4 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10041 |
From R. F. Cooke 16 July 1875
Summary
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 457 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10071 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 459 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10100 |
From R. F. Cooke 3 July 1875
Summary
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 456 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10040 |
From R. F. Cooke 31 July 1875
Summary
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 460 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10105 |
From Charlotte Papé 16 July 1875
Summary
Wants to study hereditary mental characters to see whether they are limited by sex – an idea CD holds provisionally and which she doubts. She sends a questionnaire form that she asks CD to criticise. Has read Francis Galton [Hereditary genius (1869)].
| Author: | Charlotte Papé |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10072 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary …
- … Darwin, I must ask your pardon and your indulgence for the great liberty I am going to take just now in begging of you the favour to look at the enclosed paper. The general interest which I always took in questions relating to the laws that regulate the developement of life has been raised to a very strong wish to know as much about it as I can, by your own works, which I have only now been able to really read; and Mr. Francis …
| Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
| John Murray | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Baynes, T. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
| John Murray | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Baynes, T. S. | (1) |
