To John Murray 9 January [1868]
Summary
CD exasperated by Dallas’ delay in finishing index [for Variation]. "I am prepared to throw the Index overboard."
Thinks JM should reconsider publishing a translation of Brehm’s Thierleben. It is excellent and would "sell largely".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 178–179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5781 |
To Herbert Spencer 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].
Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 485a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5717 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 4 March [1868]
Summary
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5979 |
From Theodor Piderit 28 July 1871
Summary
Interested in forthcoming Expression.
Sends publications.
Describes physiological theory of mental activity. Asks for CD’s opinion of his theory.
| Author: | Theodor Piderit |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7885 |
To Fritz Müller 30 January [1868]
Summary
Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5816 |
From W. S. Dallas 10 December 1867
Summary
WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5723 |
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- … 1867 My dear Sir Your letter received this morning was written I suppose before you received a letter from me, which I thought would have reached you yesterday morning. — I am pushing forward as fast as I can with the second volume & hope to finish it this week, which I hope will obviate all chance of injurious delay— The work is, however, fearfully heavy, & my only hope is that when the Index is finished you will think it worth the labour bestowed upon it. — Believe me | Your’s very truly | W. S. Dallas …
| letter | (26) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Piderit, Theodor | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (14) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
