To E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | Lubbock family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9794F |
To Louisa Stevenson 8 April 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louisa Stevenson |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7669F |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
From George Cupples 22 April 1871
Summary
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 111–12c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7707 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
To J. J. Aubertin 3 March [1871]
Summary
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John James Aubertin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7539 |
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 J. D. Hooker 19 March 1871
Summary
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7600 |
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 C. V. Riley 1 July [1871]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.
Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].
Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846F |
To Albert Günther 21 January [1871]
Summary
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7450 |
From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Summary
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1871
Summary
Has seen CD’s sons.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8004 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 23 May [1871]
Summary
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7766 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1871]
Summary
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7977 |
To Hermann Hoffmann 20 April [1871]
Summary
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7702 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 June 1871
Summary
Follows up CD’s observation of 13 May 1871, of a New Forest pony shedding its winter coat.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 75, 75a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7802 |
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Summary
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
To E. B. Tylor 2 October [1871]
Summary
CD advises publishing a short version of Primitive culture [1871] for the general reader.
Would like to see EBT, but his health has been bad and conversation is extremely tiring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50524: 44–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7982 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (6) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (94) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (15) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
