To H. H. Vivian 11 May [1870]
Summary
Thanks for HHV’s interest in the census [CD’s plan to add questions on consanguineous marriage to the census] on which CD hopes to persuade Sir J. Lubbock to speak.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 12: A0444 S12450012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7183 |
From H. H. Vivian 10 May 1870
Summary
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
| Author: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7182 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 December 1880
Summary
Thinks Wallace memorial should not be presented to Lord Aberdare, nor to Owen, for signature, but will follow THH’s wishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 351) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12899 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Wallace (see letter to T. H. Huxley, [7 December 1880] ). Henry Austin Bruce , first Baron …
- … Bruce to sign the memorial (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 13 November 1880 ). Richard Owen and CD had not been on speaking terms since shortly after the publication of Origin , when Owen had written what CD described as a ‘spiteful’ review (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter …
To Thomas Henry Farrer 13 [May 1870]
Summary
Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.
Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 [May 1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7188 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 December 1880
Summary
Sends draft of the Wallace memorial.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12906 |
To John Scott 3 June 1868
Summary
As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.
Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 3 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6226F |
To Albert Günther 27 December 1880
Summary
Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12944 |
To H. W. Bates [before 29 December 1880]
Summary
Informs HWB of arrangements for signing the memorial to W. E. Gladstone [for a civil pension for Wallace]. CD has got Duke of Argyll to write to Gladstone in favour of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | [before 29 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12951 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to H. W. Bates, [29 December 1880] . Thomas Henry Huxley was advising CD on the memorial for a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace . CD had explained that he wanted Joseph Dalton Hooker to sign near the end of the memorial ‘so as to end the short list with a flourish’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 December 1880 ). Henry Austin Bruce , …
To Reginald Darwin 8 April 1879
Summary
Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.
The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.
Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11982 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 November 1880
Summary
Sends draft of memorial for a pension for Wallace with suggested names of signers. Asks THH’s help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 346) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12811 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bruce , first Baron Aberdare, became president of the Royal Geographical Society in 1880 ( Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 2 (1880): 772). Henry Walter Bates was assistant secretary of the society. See letter from A. B. Buckley, 7 November 1880 . George Douglas Campbell was lord privy seal under the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone ( ODNB ). Henrietta Anne Huxley ; no postcard has been found, but see the letter from T. H. …
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Vivian, H. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Vivian, H. H. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
