To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [early 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
To Hjalmar Linnström 7 October 1877
Summary
Gives permission to translate Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Hjalmar (Hjalmar) Linnström |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00522) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11172 |
To Sara Sedgwick 29 September [1877]
Summary
Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11158 |
To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877]
Summary
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 18 [Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11008 |
To Emil Rade 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emil Rade |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10849 |
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877]
Summary
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11246 |
From J. T. Riches 12 November 1877
Summary
Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.
| Author: | John Thomas Riches |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11231 |
From W. E. Darwin [25 March? 1877]
Summary
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Mar? 1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922F |
To C. W. Thomson 3 May 1877
Summary
Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 3 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10950F |
To D. B. Miller 28 May 1877
Summary
Perhaps has not laid stress enough on the constitutional differences between males and females.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Benton Miller |
| Date: | 28 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles (in a copy of Descent) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974F |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 16 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society, which wishes to have one of its rules modified to permit the distribution of surplus funds. [Apparently an earlier draft of 11058.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 16 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11057 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 17 July [1877]
Summary
Wishes to have a resolution lately passed by the Down Friendly Society confirmed at the earliest convenience. [See also 11057.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 17 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11058 |
From J. G. Joyce 15–18 November 1877
Summary
Sections of vertical cuttings at Silchester, traced from the journal of the excavations of the Roman house, and notes on the same.
| Author: | James Gerald Joyce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15–18 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 65: 104, 106, 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11237 |
From Max Schlesinger 4 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.
| Author: | Max Schlesinger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11034 |
To Ludwig Noiré 8 August 1877
Summary
CD sends his thanks for LN’s book [Der Ursprung der Sprache] and for the obliging words on the title page.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ludwig Noiré |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11095F |
To Giovanni Canestrini 26 August [1877]
Summary
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Date: | 26 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection), subsequently offered for sale by Marsha Malinowski (dealer), New York (https://marshamalinowski.com/press/, accessed 18 December 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11113 |
To Robert Damon 15 October 1877
Summary
Cannot give information requested. Seems incredible that mere contact should be poisonous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Damon |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 212–213) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11185 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877]
Summary
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11217 |
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