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To G. H. Darwin   5 May [1879]

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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

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  • … lock of Charles’s hair ( Duncan 1824 , pp. 1012). L. Library: London Library. There was a …

From Antonio Mendola   29 December 1879

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Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.

Author:  Antonio Mendola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 150
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12375

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  • … a questo sperimento oscillava da 10 a 12.  gr d . Reàmur— Questi peli senza perdere il …
  • … room assigned to this experiment varied from 10 to 12 degrees Réaumur— These hairs without …

From John Denny   16 August 1879

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JD communicates, after seven years, news of a new "sport" of Pelargonium, sterile both with other varieties and with the mother plant, thus indicating that it is possibly a new species.

Author:  John Denny
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Aug 1879
Classmark:  DAR 162: 161
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12195

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  • … Florist and Pomologist (January 1872): 1012, (February 1872): 34–6, (March 1872): 50–3. …

To Wilhelm Behrens   10 November 1879

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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

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  • … Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Nov 1879 Georg Wilhelm …

From Leonard Darwin   [before 12 July] 1879

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Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.

[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]

Author:  Leonard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 12 July] 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B7–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12160

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  • … DAR 92: B7–10 Leonard Darwin Brompton Barracks, Chatham [before 12 July] 1879 Charles …
  • 12 July [1879] . The date written by Leonard was most likely a slip of the pen, although the ‘11’ is probably correct for the day. Leonard was reading proof-sheets of CD’s essay for Erasmus Darwin . Ernst Krause had suggested lengthening his own section of the book rather than having CD cut anything ( letter from Ernst Krause, 10

To Ernst Krause   12 July [1879]

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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

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  • … 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]

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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

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  • … 6 and 12 were titled ‘ Chauncey Wright ’ and ‘A librarian’s work’. Chapter 10 (‘Postscript …

From W. D. Fox   3 March [1879]

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Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

Author:  William Darwin Fox
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 172–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11913

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  • … Gertrude was married on 10 September 1879 ( The Times , 12 September 1879, p. 1). Agnes …

From Charles Moore   15 May 1879

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Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.

Author:  Charles Moore
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 May 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 233
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12055

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  • … vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 and n. 12; see also Living Cirripedia (1851) , …

From Ernst Krause   16 July 1879

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Rejects proposal that CD’s sketch appear as a supplement or appendix to his own. Offers alternative suggestions. Proposes title-page for German edition of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B33–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12162

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  • 10. II. den 16.7.79. Hochverehrter Herr! Die Idee, der Sie in Ihrem gütigen Schreiben vom 12  …
  • 10. II. 16.7.79. Highly esteemed Sir! The notion which you expressed in your kind letter of 12  …

To Francis Galton   14 November [1879]

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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

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  • … 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]

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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

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  • … the Sunday before 12 May was 11 May. See letter from G.  H.  Darwin, 10 May 1879 and n. 1. …

To E. A. Wheler   12 April 1879

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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

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  • … Darwin , 12 May 1802, is in DAR 227.6: 76. See also letter to Reginald Darwin, 10 April [ …

To Ernst Krause   17 November 1879

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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

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  • 10) Cradock a literary man, now forgotten (11) Darwinian Snowdrops—means merely planted by D r D. (12) …

From E. A. Wheler   25 March 1879

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Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.

Author:  Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11953

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  • … 1999 , p. 10). CD included the stocking anecdote in Erasmus Darwin , p. 12. Erasmus Darwin …

From Ernst Krause   20 October 1879

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Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.

Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.

Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Oct 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B41–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12264

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  • 10. II. 20 October 1879. Most esteemed Sir! With my best thanks I herewith return under wrapper the corrections. Regarding errors I noticed only p.  138 l.  8 offsprings for offspring p.  170.  l.  12  …
  • 10. II. den 20 October 1879. Hochverehrter Herr! Mit bestem Danke sende ich Ihnen hierbei unter Kreuzband die Correctionen zurück. Von Fehlern habe ich nur noch bemerkt p.  138 l.  8 offsprings for offspring p.  170.  l.  12  …

From Ernst Krause   7 June 1879

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Hopes to send last part of his work soon. CD may lay it aside or print only parts of it. Wants to add account of evolutionists before Erasmus Darwin. Superficial account by Samuel Butler makes this necessary.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12092

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  • 10. II. den 7.6.79. Hochverehrter Herr! Ich bitte Sie tausendmal um Entschuldigung, nicht früher über den Fortgang meiner Arbeit berichtet zu haben; ich glaubte nämlich den zweiten Theil bald schicken zu können; allein unvorhergesene Hindernisse haben dies bis heute verhindert. Jedenfalls hoffe ich den Schluss der Arbeit bis zum 12  …
  • 10. II. 7.6.79. Most esteemed Sir! I beg your forgiveness a thousand times for not having reported sooner about the progress of my work; you see, I believed I would be able to send the second part soon; however, unexpected obstacles prevented this until today. In any case I hope to be able to send you the concluding part of the piece by 12  …

From Ernst Krause   14 November 1879

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Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.

Author:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 92: B49–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12316

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  • 10. Wer war Mr.  Cradock (p.  89)? 11. Soll “Darwinian snowdrops” (p.  90) nur von Dr.  Darwin gepflanzte Schneeglöckchen bedeuten, oder handelt es sich um eine nach ihm benannte Art? 12. …
  • 10. Who was Mr Cradock (p.  89)? 11. Does “Darwinian snowdrops” (p.  90) just mean snowdrops that were planted by Dr.  Darwin, or are they a species named after him? 12. …

From Arthur Mellersh   13 February 1879

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Birthday wishes.

Author:  Arthur Mellersh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11880

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  • 12 February 1879. Mellersh had sailed on HMS Beagle with CD in the 1830s; his wife, Henrietta Frances Mellersh , was baptised on 13 February 1814 ( England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 29 November 2017)). The last known meeting between Mellersh and CD was at Down on 21 October 1862; see Correspondence vol. 10, …

From W. S. Dallas   28 August 1879

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He has no cause to complain at CD’s suppression of parts of his translation. Will do his best to correct and improve the proofs.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Aug 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 120–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12202

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  • 10 for the translation on CD’s initial request to translate only Krause’s Kosmos article ‘ Erasmus Darwin , der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie’ ( Erasmus Darwin , Charles Darwin’s grandfather and forerunner: a contribution to the history of descent theory; Krause 1879a ); see letter to W. S. Dallas, 12
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