To John Higgins 11 December [1847]
Summary
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1138 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11. My dear Sir I beg to thank you for your letter of the 8 th , informing me that you would pay £ 198 ’ 12 . 3 to my account at M r Robarts & enclosing your account. — I am very glad to hear that all is going on prosperously; but I am sorry for the poor old man’s death. I thank you sincerely for your kind expressions about my Father— pray believe me— my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin …
To John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1119 |
To Ernst Krause 15 September 1879
Summary
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36194) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12231 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Edward Cresy 13 September 1862
Summary
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3719 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin , who had been ill with scarlet fever since June 1862. See letter to H. C. Watson, 8 [August 1862] , and letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] . Cresy was principal assistant clerk at the Metropolitan Board of Works. At the time of Cresy’s visit to Down House in September 1860, CD had been observing the response of the insectivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia to various substances (see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Daniel Oliver , 11 …
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
