To G. H. Darwin 5 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12033 |
To Wilhelm Behrens 10 November 1879
Summary
Thanks GWJB for work on nectaries ["Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Blüthen-Nectarien", Flora (1878): 454–60].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12305 |
To Ernst Krause 12 July [1879]
Summary
Relieved to hear that EK approves of his notice [preface for Erasmus Darwin]. Is reflecting on idea that it might appear after EK’s article as "an additional or supplementary notice".
Grieved to hear that Grant Allen has been accused of plagiarism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 12 July [1879] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12150 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter from Ernst Krause, 10 July 1879 and nn. 11 and 12. Krause’s article, claiming …
- … 10 July 1879 ; CD refers to his preliminary notice for Erasmus Darwin . Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Erasmus Alvey Darwin (see letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 …
- … 12 July] 1879 ). The Darwins were planning a vacation in the Lake District; they stayed in Coniston from 2 to 27 August 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). William Sweetland Dallas was translating Krause’s section of Erasmus Darwin . Krause had asked whether he could keep the proof-sheets; see letter from Ernst Krause, 10 …
To John Fiske 17 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 17 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12196 |
To Francis Galton 14 November [1879]
Summary
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12317 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … gives me pleasure. 10. Geography No 11. Military movements No 12. Mechanism Never tried …
- … 10. Geography. — Do you readily follow the geographical descriptions in ordinary newspaper letters from foreign correspondents. 11. Military movements. — Can you realise the changing position of troops, as though you actually saw them on the march, when reading the description of battles or of manœuvres? 12. …
To G. H. Darwin [11 May 1879]
Summary
CD is particularly obliged for the copy of Maria Edgeworth’s letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [11 May 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12049 |
To E. A. Wheler 12 April 1879
Summary
Thanks EAW for assistance. Describes plans for writing preliminary sketch [for Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11990 |
To Ernst Krause 17 November 1879
Summary
Answers EK’s questions. Sorry to report Erasmus Darwin sold only 600 copies at advance sale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36197) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12324 |
To John Fiske 10 June 1879
Summary
Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8265) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12098 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 th 1879 My dear M r Fiske Would it suit you best to come here on the 18 th . either to luncheon or to dinner & for a bed, returning after breakfast next morning; for we are not likely to be in London for some time. Pray do whichever suits your arrangements best. — If you come for luncheon you must leave Charing Cross by the 11 o 25
′ Train; if for dinner by the 4 o 12 …
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Summary
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Fiske, John | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Behrens, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Fiske, John | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Behrens, Wilhelm | (1) |
