From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
To Fritz Müller 12 May 1870
Summary
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 May 1870 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7184 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 20 July [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and Colp 1977 ). Jones may refer to Horace Darwin , whom CD regarded as an invalid (see letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Horace was home from school from 22 July to 10 …
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