From C. H. Tindal 1 January 1880
Summary
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392F |
To John Murray 9 June 1880
Summary
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12625 |
From S. H. Haliburton 12 December [1880]
Summary
Writes of the pleasure of seeing him again.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 209–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12907 |
To T. H. Huxley [7 December 1880]
Summary
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12893 |
From James Torbitt 15 December 1880
Summary
Forster cannot help at present. Is sending copies of an enclosure [missing] to Downing Street.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 170, 171/3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12915 |
To S. H. Haliburton 22 November 1880
Summary
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12839 |
To G. J. Romanes 13 December 1880
Summary
Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.
Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.
Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.
Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.
Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12908F |
From Henry Pitman 24 April 1880
Summary
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".
| Author: | Henry Pitman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12589 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 December 1880
Summary
Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.
Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12913 |
To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 30 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 May 1880
Summary
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12603 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13 April, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain , Huxley had delivered two lectures, ‘On dogs and the problems connected with them’, in which he gave a complete survey of the dog family, both wild and domestic ( L. Huxley ed. 1900 , 2: 10). The lectures were never published, but a short report on the first one appeared in The Times , 7 April 1880, p. 7. Huxley had been sent skulls from India by Joseph Fayrer ( L. Huxley ed. 1900 , 2: 11). …
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Pitman, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
