From Emma Darwin to Roland Trimen [22 August 1871]
Summary
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7916 |
Matches: 4 hits
From S. R. S. Norton and C. E. Norton to H. E. Darwin 21 August [1871]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
| Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7914 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
To W. M. Hacon? 29 August 1871
Summary
Sends details of trains for a clerk to travel to Down from London and back.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | B. and L. Rootenberg (dealers) [2003] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918F |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 19 August [1871]
Summary
A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.
The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.
Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.
His brother-in-law has been arrested.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7911 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
From J. F. McLennan 21 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].
He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7913 |
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
From T. H. Farrer 11 August 1871
Summary
Sorry he will be away when CD comes down.
Congratulations on Henrietta Darwin’s engagement.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7903 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
