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 J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
From Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port 8 December 1880
Summary
Have received Movement in plants. It will interest not only botanists but zoologists and biologists.
Ten years ago AD-P encountered great opposition when he started teaching Darwinism at Zurich. Now all except old Oswald Heer call themselves Darwinists.
| Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port; Carolina Dodel-Port |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12898 |
From A. C. Ramsay 18 June [1880]
Summary
Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13210 |
From James Torbitt [18 March 1880]
Summary
On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Mar 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 52: E15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12381 |
To R. P. Hardy 6 August [1880]
Summary
Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12680 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 March 1880
Summary
[Letter written as a postscript to 11406.] CD has reread his letter of 7 Mar 1878 about the value of James Torbitt’s work on the potato disease and has nothing to withdraw. Emphasises Torbitt’s need for immediate financial help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (MS 489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12512 |
From George King 28 September 1880
Summary
Sends two preserved pigs (showing some hereditary phenomenon) that the late John Scott intended for CD.
King has all of Scott’s papers.
| Author: | George King |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12729 |
To S. H. Haliburton 13 December 1880
Summary
CD and Emma enjoyed SH’s visit to Queen Anne Street and would like her to come to Down. When he next comes to London, he hopes to call on Fanny Biddulph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12908 |
To James Caird 24 March 1880
Summary
Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Caird |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12546 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1880]
Summary
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 500–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12870 |
From Raphael Meldola 24 November 1880
Summary
Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12850 |
To James Torbitt 19 December 1880
Summary
Does JT require part or all of £90 that CD holds from subscribers for his experiments?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12925 |
From Anton Dohrn 11 February 1880
Summary
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12471 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Caird, James | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Hardy, R. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Torbitt, James | (2) |
| Caird, James | (1) |
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