To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870]
Summary
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7124 |
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- … E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] (DAR 219.9: 72), in which Emma says she is enclosing a …
From H. E. Darwin [after 8 February 1870]
Summary
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 February 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 33b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112F |
From Mary Susan Mostyn Owen 2 February [1870]
Summary
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
| Author: | Mary Susan Parker; Mary Susan Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7094 |
To W. D. Fox 18 February [1870]
Summary
Invites WDF to visit.
Describes activities of his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7113 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From John Lubbock 27 February [1870]
Summary
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: 166–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7118 |
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
From Jane Loring Gray 14 February 1870
Summary
About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.
| Author: | Jane Loring Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: 162–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7104 |
From W. D. Fox 15 February [1870]
Summary
Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7107 |
To Robert Garner 22 February [1870–1]
Summary
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Garner |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115F |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 20 February [1870]
Summary
Moritz Wagner is going to attack selection theory in his new book on his travels in America [Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen im tropischen Amerika (1870)].
K. G. Semper may attack CD’s theory of coral islands.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7114 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 22 February [1870]
Summary
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13060 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 February 1870]
Summary
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7096 |
From William Swale 16 February [1870?]
Summary
Sends CD some notes on the habits of the "American Blight Bird" in New Zealand.
| Author: | William Swale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7109 |
| letter | (17) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Garner, Robert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
