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Radovanović, Marinko (fl. 1870s)

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  • … Serbian translator. Letter from Marinko Radovanović, 30 August 1878 Darwin, C. R. Serbian …

From J. J. Weir   23 March 1868

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Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]

Author:  John Jenner Weir
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Mar 1868
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 61–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6041

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  • … truly | J Jenner Weir C Darwin Esq r . 1.1 I have … letter. — 13.2] crossed pencil 11.1 A …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   14 April [1875]

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Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  14 Apr [1875]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9930

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  • … Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer) Charles …

To R. F. Cooke   18 November [1879]

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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

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  • Darwin saw in his voyage round the world ; C. R. Darwin 1880 ), abridged and rearranged for children by Wendell Phillips Garrison , son of the anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison (see letter
  • C. R. Darwin 1880 was published in the US by Harper & Brothers . CD’s publisher was John Murray . Murray held a sale dinner each November for the book trade ( J. Murray 1908–9 , p. 540). CD had suggested printing 1000 copies of Erasmus Darwin in his letter

From R. I. Thompson   27 April 1871

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About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.

Author:  Ralph Ingham Thompson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 113–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7722

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  • Darwin Esq M.A.  F.R.S. | &c &c &c 2.4 I have also … from them 2.6] crossed pencil End of letter : ‘R.   …

To J. D. Hooker   [30 October 1863]

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Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [30 Oct 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 207
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4324

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  • … this. Yours affect y . | C.  Darwin I have a long letter from D r Haast: I do not know …

From Edward Parfitt   31 October 1881

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Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.

Author:  Edward Parfitt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 174: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13445

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  • … truly | Edward Parfitt C.  Darwin Esq r Top of letter : ‘(good)’ pencil End of letter : …

Darwin, Francis (1848–1925)

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  • Darwin, C. R. Trinity College, Cambridge Cambridge University British Association for the Advancement of Science Cambridge Life and letters

Noiré, Ludwig (1829–89)

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  • Darwin, C. R. Gymnasium Mainz monographs on pedagogy, the origin of language, the history of philosophy, and Kantian philosophy German philosopher man of letters

From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot   20 December 1875

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Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:  20 Dec 1875
Classmark:  Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (20 December 1875), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10311

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  • … Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (20 December 1875), …

To F. E. Abbot   15 April 1880

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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

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  • … Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in …

From W. P. Garrison   9 November 1879

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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

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  • Darwin saw on his voyage round the world ; C. R. Darwin 1880 ), as well as memorials about his father, the anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison . CD’s remarks about an English edition were in a missing portion of his letter

From Samuel Butler   21 January 1880

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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

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  • … Charles Darwin Esq r FR.S &c. Dear Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of …

From Charles Lyell   8 September 1860

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Believes CD’s argument against special creation based on absence of terrestrial mammals on islands isolated before Pliocene era is very strong. However, the absence means Cetacea and bats have not modified towards terrestrial existence. There is similar lack of development of bats and rodents in Australia. Constancy among land shells of Madeira over long period shows that the majority of their species are immutable: a minority of "metamorphic" species maintains the overall number of true species while extinction removes many. Emphasis on the role of extinction discomfits CD’s opponents since the power of generation of new species ought to keep pace. Mentions Ammonite deposits with reference to CD’s comments on their apparent sudden extinction [Origin, pp. 321–2]. Perhaps absence of transmutation on slowly subsiding atolls indicates the slow rate of selective change.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Sept 1860
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 179–86)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2908A

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  • … headed: ‘C.  Lyell to C.  Darwin 8 th Sept r . 1860— Coburg’. See letter to Charles Lyell, …

To John Murray   24 July [1853]

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Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  24 July [1853]
Classmark:  DAR 249: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1524

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  • letter to M r Galton, the author of the very interesting volume lately published by you. — My dear Sir | Your’s very faithfully | C.  Darwin

To J. S. Henslow   [before 12 October 1849]

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J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  [before 12 Oct 1849]
Classmark:  DAR 93: A91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1284

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  • r Innes, our clergyman, is greatly obliged for your most valuable letter. — In Haste | Yours most sincerely | C.  Darwin

From John Jeremiah   11 March 1871

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Case of cat transmitting a habit to her offspring.

Author:  John Jeremiah
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 101–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7572

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  • … very respectfully | John Jeremiah J r C.  Darwin Esqre Top of letter : ‘Imitation | Kitten …

From B. P. Brent   15 June 1861

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On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.

On his breeding of guinea-pigs.

Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.

Author:  Bernard Peirce Brent
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 June 1861
Classmark:  DAR 160.2: 300
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3184

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  • … part of her letter. I am | Dear Sir | Your’s sincerly | B P Brent To C Darwin Esq r . 0.3  …

From T. H. Farrer   26 October 1868

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Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Oct 1868
Classmark:  DAR 164: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6432

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  • C Darwin Esq r Thank you very much for putting down your name for me at the Linnean Top of letter : ‘ …

From George Robert Gray   2 April 1868

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On the changes in plumage of scarlet ibis at the zoo in breeding season.

Author:  George Robert Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Apr 1868
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 90–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6082

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  • R.  Gray C.  Darwin Esq re . 1.4 that is … bird; 1.5] scored red crayon Top of letter : ‘ …
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