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 …
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1875]
Summary
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 382–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9905 |
To A. B. Buckley 23 February 1875
Summary
Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9868 |
To Thomas Belt 31 March [1875]
Summary
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9906 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 1 May [1875]
Summary
CD is delighted to hear that JSBS’s exertions and labour will probably be rewarded by success. He has had a note from Playfair who, like Lubbock, thinks the title and preamble [of the proposed bill] "had better wear a more humanitarian aspect".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9963 |
To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10222 |
To T. H. Farrer 12 July 1875
Summary
Describes difficulty of conditions for the experiment with Drosera suggested by THF.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 12 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10060 |
To Lawson Tait 25 March 1875
Summary
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9902 |
| letter | (49) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
