To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … by the reference to CD’s visit to London (see n. 2, below). CD, Emma Darwin , and …
- … 10 to 20 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … CD and Emma Darwin visited Huxley on …
- … Sunday 12 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Elizabeth Darwin stayed with Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from …
From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875]
Summary
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 and 2 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. …
- … on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin considered Bird ‘such a romancer’ …
- … her not worth reading ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Darwin, [5 March 1875] (DAR …
- … the plants that Francis mentions to Emma Darwin may have been intended for the garden …
To C. E. Norton 7 October 1875
Summary
Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185 |
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] and n. 2). Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Lady …
- … Dorothy Nevill came to lunch with the Darwins on 4 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … DAR 242)); Emma Darwin implied that the visit from Nevill would be a strain because …
- … adoring (if possible)’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [1 May 1875] (DAR …
To ? 4 May [1875]
Summary
Sends photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9970 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1875]
Summary
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10293 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 January [1875]
Summary
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9799 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 May 1875
Summary
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9986 |
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 July 1875
Summary
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 7 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10046 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 April 1875
Summary
Encloses a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938).
Sir John Lubbock has agreed to meet CD, but no arrangement has been made.
Maybe they should drop the petition, since Lord Derby has agreed to help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9939F |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
To W. D. Whitney 8 May 1875
Summary
Hopes WDW will come to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
| Date: | 8 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9974 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1875]
Summary
Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.
Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10301 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
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