To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
From H. Y. Thompson 21 January 1882
Summary
Sends a letter [missing] from a Mr Moorhouse on lapwing behaviour that makes earthworms rise to surface.
| Author: | Henry Yates Thompson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13635 |
To George Ransome 25 October [1849]
Summary
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1261 |
From E. H. Stanley 17 April 1875
Summary
He is honoured by CD’s selection of him as the medium of communication with Government. The matter [Vivisection Bill] now lies with the Home Secretary.
| Author: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9938 |
To E. H. Stanley 15 April 1875
Summary
CD has helped leading physiologists to prepare a draft bill for legislation with regard to vivisection, and he hopes Lord Derby will support the bill and mention it to ministers of the Cabinet. Has heard that other groups are preparing bills for the same purpose, and feels it important that the science of physiology be protected as well as animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C22–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9933 |
From H. E. Stanley to James Torbitt 29 December 1877
Summary
Reports on potatoes grown from Torbitt’s seed.
| Author: | Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11296 |
To E. H. Stanley 8 July 1880
Summary
Thanks EHS (Lord Stanley) for his trouble in providing information about the Niagara affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 8 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/21/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12649F |
To E. H. Stanley 25 June 1880
Summary
Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 25 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642F |
From Anthony Rich 13 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13397 |
From M. C. Stanley 22 December 1875
Summary
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10318 |
From James Torbitt 5 March 1880
Summary
Wonders whether Lord Derby would advance him the money to continue his work.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12516 |
From M. C. Stanley 4 June 1872
Summary
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8369 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1872
Summary
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 112–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8327 |
To Librarian, Royal Society of London 27 October [1856]
Summary
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1013 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 April [1875]
Summary
Richard Buckley Litchfield will soon be able to send CD revised copies of the bill.
Will write to Sir John Lubbock to ask if he will present the bill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9948F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 May 1875
Summary
Encloses the bill with its corrected preamble. How many copies would he like?
Hopes JSBS can attend the meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on 5 May 1875.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9966F |
To James Torbitt 6 March 1880
Summary
Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12520 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 15 August [1843]
Summary
CD sends off his notes [corrections and additions to his Journal of researches] which he hopes ED will introduce [in German translation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1843] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-689 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 April 1875
Summary
Encloses a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938).
Sir John Lubbock has agreed to meet CD, but no arrangement has been made.
Maybe they should drop the petition, since Lord Derby has agreed to help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9939F |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 April [1875]
Summary
Discusses the best means of presenting the draft bill about animal experimentation. Suggests that CD inform Lord Derby that scientific men concurred with the bill that had been prepared. [See 9923.]
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9923A |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (5) |
| Stanley, E. H. | (3) |
| Torbitt, James | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (5) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (5) |
