From Joseph Plimsoll 26 October 1881
Summary
Urges CD to find God.
| Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13434 |
Agassiz, Louis. 1872b. Professor Agassiz’s South American expedition. [Reprinted from the New York Tribune, 26 June 1872.] Nature, 11 July 1872, p. 216; 18 July 1872, pp. 229–31; 1 August 1872, pp. 270–3.
From T. V. Wollaston [early November 1856]
Summary
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2030 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 December [1844]
Summary
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797F |
To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
To John Murray 20 March 1871
Summary
Pleased with sum the reprint [of Descent] has produced. Terms of payment accepted.
Thanks JM for Nonconformist [review of Descent, 32 (1871): 240–1].
Would like to see other out-of-way reviews – especially religious.
Other reviews favourable, including Wallace’s [see 7569], which is admirable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 250–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7603 |
Murray, Andrew. 1868c. On the geographical relations of the chief coleopterous faunæ. [Read 17 December 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 11 (1873): 1–89.
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
From James Shaw 7 November 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of the Origin [4th ed.]; makes some observations on beauty and ugliness in nature.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5270 |
From Harrison William Weir 7 May 1869
Summary
Daisies.
A tame rabbit with a litter of 18.
| Author: | Harrison William Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6733 |
To W. D. Fox 8 February [1857]
Summary
Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".
CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.
Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.
To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.
Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2049 |
From James Paget 18 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12328 |
To C. W. Stoddard 5 May [1870]
Summary
Discusses flora of Sandwich Isles. "There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Warren Stoddard |
| Date: | 5 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72755) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7180 |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
Paget, James. 1873. Clinical lectures on the nervous mimicry of organic diseases. Lancet, 11 October 1873, pp. 511–13; 18 October 1873, pp. 547–9; 1 November 1873, pp. 619–21; 22 November 1873, pp. 727–9; 29 November 1873, pp. 763–5; 13 December 1873, pp. 833–5.
To H. E. Darwin 20 March 1871
Summary
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605 |
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1874a. Venus’s fly-trap (Dionæa muscipula). (Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 5 June 1874.) Nature, 11 June 1874, pp. 105–7, and 18 June 1874, pp. 127–8.
From Hubert Airy 26 [September–November 1873]
Summary
The Royal Society referees have rejected HA’s phyllotaxy paper, and it will not be printed in Philosophical Transactions. HA is not sorry for he has found new facts which limit the applicability of his views. Now believes that the original leaf arrangement was not necessarily always two-ranked but rather that existing arrangements have developed from a variety of forms with differing numbers of leaf-ranks.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Sept-Nov] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9073 |
From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6455 |
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