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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870] …
- … 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down [8 Feb 1870] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … established by the relationship between this letter and a letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … England in January 1870 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [18 January 1870] ( …
- … E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] (DAR 219.9: 72), in which Emma says she is enclosing a …
To H. E. Darwin [March] 1870
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [Mar] 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7123 |
To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … There is no reference to illness in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). Cobbe had published a …
- … £1. – | I am, Sir, yours &c. | Charles Darwin | Down, Beckenham, Kent. Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that CD thought the publication of the letter ‘unjustifiable’ and …
- … in this form without his consent ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 302). The original article did …
To H. B. Jones 3 August [1870]
Summary
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293A |
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
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 |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870s?] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
To Albert Günther 16 January [1870]
Summary
Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 16 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7080 |
To St G. J. Mivart 21 April [1870]
Summary
On amount of modification and lines of descent in determining the position in man.
Reference to StGJM’s article "On the appendicular skeleton of the primates" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. [157 (1867): 299–430],
and his [and James Murie’s] article on lemurs ["On the anatomy of Lemuroidea"] Trans. Zool. Soc. [7 (1872): 1–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 21 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7718A |
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 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1870]
Summary
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 May [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 169–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7200 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
Summary
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 20 July [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
letter | (17) |
Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Garner, Robert | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |