To R. F. Cooke 18 November [1879]
Summary
Thinks W. P. Garrison’s book [extracts from Journal of researches for juvenile readers] would serve as an advertisement for the Journal.
Disappointed at sale of Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 18 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 364–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12327 |
From W. P. Garrison 9 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".
Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12302 |
From Samuel Butler 21 January 1880
Summary
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12438 |
From W. P. Garrison 4 October 1879
Summary
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12248 |
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- … Darwin saw in his voyage round the world in the ship ‘Beagle’ (C. R. Darwin 1880 ). It included two prefaces (one for parents and one for children) and 100 illustrations, and was divided into four sections: animals, humans, geography, and nature. Garrison also enclosed memorials of his father, William Lloyd Garrison (see letter …
To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
To W. P. Garrison 16 October 1879
Summary
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12260A |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Garrison, W. P. | (2) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Garrison, W. P. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Garrison, W. P. | (3) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |