From E. A. Darwin [24 January 1825]
Summary
Asks CD to do an experiment for him.
Has found a curious stone in his fire.
Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-11 …
To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To ? 11 March [1862–9] …
- … Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Mar …
- … 1862 11 Mar …
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- … 1868 11 Mar 1869 Unidentified …
- … Down Bromley Kent March 11 th . Dear Sir You are most entirely welcome to insert anything …
To Mr S. 11 September [1875–81]
Summary
Sends a photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632F |
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To ? 11 June [1861–8] …
- … dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 June …
- … 1861 11 June …
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- … 1867 11 June 1868 Unidentified …
- … Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. June 11 th My dear Sir I am very much obliged for your kind …
[Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst A. von.] 1875c. Insektenfressende Pflanzen. Fremden-Blatt, 10 August 1875, pp. 11–12, and 11 August 1875, pp. 11–12.
Agassiz, Louis. 1863b. The Silurian beach. Atlantic Monthly 11: 460–71.
To W. W. Baxter 11 December [1873–5?]
Summary
Requests hydrated magnesia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1873-5] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772G |
Matches: 5 hits
To G. S. Ffinden 11 November 1879
Summary
Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12308 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To G. S. Ffinden 11 November 1879 …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Nov 1879 George Sketchley Ffinden …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Nov 11 th 1879 My dear Sir …
- … I enclose a cheque for £ 11" s 5"0 for the Down Coal & Clothing Club consisting as follow …
- … 1.0.0 Leonard D. 1.0.0 Miss. D. 1.0.0 ——– £11:5:0. It is, as you remark, fortunate that …
- … the Coal and Clothing Club ( J. R. Moore 1985 , p. 470). On 11 November 1879, CD recorded …
- … a payment of £11 5 s under the heading ‘Ffinden’ in his Account books–banking account ( …
To Menyhért Lónyay [after 11 June 1872]
Summary
Thanks for his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Menyhért Lónyay |
| Date: | [after 11 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 154r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8383 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Menyhért Lónyay [after 11 June 1872] …
- … DAR 96: 154r Charles Robert Darwin Bassett [after 11 June 1872] Menyhért Lónyay …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872 . …
- … See letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872 . H. A. of Sc. : Hungarian Academy of …
- … the receipt of your obliging letter of June 11 th . in which you announce to me that the …
To J. D. Hooker 11 December [1860]
Summary
On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.
Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 80, 78E |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3019 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 December [1860] …
- … DAR 115: 80, 78E Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Dec [1860] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–11 December 1860] . In his letter, Hooker stated that he …
- … has not been found, but see the letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1860] . The letter has …
- … Down Bromley Kent Dec. 11 th My dear Hooker Sincere thanks for suggestions; some of which …
- … not been found, but see the letter to David Forbes, 11 December [1860] and the …
- … letter from David Forbes, [after 11 December 1860] . Forbes had recently read a paper on …
- … of points raised in Hooker’s letter of [6–11 December 1860] , it would appear to have been …
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Summary
Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
Matches: 5 hits
Balfour, John Hutton. 1873. Obituary notice of Thomas Anderson, MD, FLS. Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 11: 41–5.
[Oliver, Daniel.] 1863. [Review of J. D. Hooker’s study of Welwitschia.] Natural History Review n.s. 3: 201–11.
Torell, Otto Martin. 1859. Bidrag till Spitsbergens molluskfauna. Jemte en allmän öfversigt af Arktiska regionens naturförhârcurbr;llanden och forntida utbredning. Stockholm: Typografiska föreningens boktryckeri.
From Charles Layton 11 March 1880
Summary
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1880 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.
| Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12531 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Charles Layton 11 March 1880 …
- … Layton D. Appleton & Co London, Little Britain, 16 11 Mar 1880 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 10% of $1. 146.60 Insectivorous Plants No sales $281.40 Stg value exch 4[. ]88 £57. 11. 2 …
- … Down House MS) records the receipt of £57 11 s. 2 d. for ‘Appleton sale of books for 1/2 …
- … 16 Little Britain (City) March 11 th . /80 Dear Sir I enclose cheque on Union Bank for £ …
From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
| Author: | Henrietta Grace Smyth; Henrietta Grace Powell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3977 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to Down on Saturday 14 February (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). …
- … From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863 …
- … Henrietta Grace Powell London, Hyde Park Gate South, 1 11 Feb 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Truly your’s | Henrietta G Powell. February 11. 1863. Address | M rs . Baden Powell | 1. …
To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869
Summary
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6932 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869 …
- … dealer) (catalogue 123) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 11 Oct 1869 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … October 11, 1869 I am very glad that you are willing to try DeCandolle’s experiment which …
- … 4, and letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 11 October 1869 . The original letter is complete …
To E. B. Aveling 11 August [1881]
Summary
Thanks EBA for his book [see 13283]. Has no objection to people differing from him or carrying his arguments further than he would consider safe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Bibbens Aveling |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13287 |
To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877]
Summary
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Veitch & Sons |
| Date: | [before 11 Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10749 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877] …
- … DAR 202: 96 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [before 11 Aug 1877] Veitch & Sons …
- … this letter and the letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 August 1877 . CD received thirty …
- … of Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly trap) from Veitch on 11 August 1877 (see letter to W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 11 August 1877 ). CD had evidently included this set of questions about …
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Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
