To Francis Galton 13 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
From Caroline, Catherine, and Susan Darwin 20–31 December [1831]
Summary
Family and Shropshire news.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20–31 Dec [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-153 |
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- … letter it will be so very interesting. I am very sanguine about y r enjoyment as I think you are like myself & always look at the best side. I shall commence on a folio sheet in a very few days for the 1 st . of Feb & now I must bid you Good bye wishing you a most happy prosperous New Year which begins tomorrow Ever Dear
〈 est〉 C y r most affectionate Susan Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Summary
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
To Swale and Wilson [on or before 24 October 1849]
Summary
Orders books [Hugh Miller, Foot-prints of the Creator (1849)
and Carl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Thoughts and opinions of a statesman, Sir Arthur Helps, ed. (1849)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Swale and Wilson |
| Date: | [on or before 24 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | W. H. Thorpe (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1263 |
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- … letters of a Statesman translated recently —— Six cards of “ Patent Parryian National Pen No r 3. : Fine Points ” ramme NB please attend that this kind be sent. And a packet of 100 of Newspaper covers; I think patented by Delafield—viz a strip of paper with a tape let in. — Yours faithfully | C. Darwin …
To G. A. Mantell 13 May [1843]
Summary
Capt. FitzRoy has read GAM’s letter to CD regarding an appointment for GAM’s son and is disposed to help, but has resolved to make no appointments until he arrives in New Zealand [as Governor].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
| Date: | 13 May [1843] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-487 p.41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-676 |
From O. A. Ainslie 2[5] November 188[0]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2[5] Nov 188[0] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12388 |
From Anthony Carlisle 23 December 1836
Summary
The Royal College of Surgeons’ Board of Curators approve the terms and conditions under which CD has offered his S. American fossil bones to the College, and have sent their recommendation to the Council.
| Author: | Anthony Carlisle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-334 |
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- … Letter of the 19 th . to the Board of Curators who expressed their intire approval of the terms and conditions annexed to your highly liberal offer of your valuable specimens of South American fossil remains— The Board have recommended their acceptance to the next Council of the College, and I hope that you will soon receive their decision— Dear Sir | Your much obliged Serv t | Anthony Carlisle *S 2 Charles Darwin Es r &c & …
From J. J. Weir [before 3] March 1868
Summary
Aggressive behaviour of a bullfinch toward new arrival in JJW’s aviary.
Sexual differences in goldfinches: size of beaks.
Sexual selection in Lepidoptera.
Thinks Dr Alex Wallace’s observations on Bombyx not conclusive in proving that no preference is shown by females.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3] Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 51–2 and DAR 82: A107–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5964 |
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To Japetus Steenstrup 4 November [1851]
Summary
Asks for reference to publication about Xenobalanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1851] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1461 |
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- … r 4 th . — My dear Sir In a former letter, I ventured to ask you to inform me of the reference to publication in which Xenobalanus globicipitis has appeared. If you will take the trouble to answer me this question, you will much add to the kindness which you formerly showed me, & for which I shall ever feel much obliged. With much respect | Your obliged servant | C. Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin [10? September 1862]
Summary
Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [10? Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3704 |
To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
From William Main 2 April 1873
Summary
Having now read Expression, WM repeats his criticism of "antithesis". Explains his theory of up-and-down-tending lines.
| Author: | William Main |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8836 |
To George Robert Waterhouse [after 22 May 1845]
Summary
Thanks him for describing the niata ox.
He is delighted that GRW is grappling with Galápagos insects. Needs to know immediately whether any entomologists beside GRW, Walker and A. White have described his insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1845] |
| Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-864A |
From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
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- … Darwin I should think Violetta Darwin could send you a good Draw g . of Breadsall Church if you wanted it—. She Lythographs well— My view is f m . an old draw g lent me years ago— I forget if there is anything in Smiles life of Boulton & Watt of D r . E Darwin Top of letter : ‘Parcel | acknowledged | by P. C. ’ ’pencil ; ‘D r …
To A. R. Wallace 5 December [1869]
Summary
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7020 |
From G. S. Ffinden 31 May 1879
Summary
The official parish tithe map shows that a greater error than at first thought was made in measuring Miss Wedgwood’s land. She was overpaid £15 10s.
| Author: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12074 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
From J. J. Weir 24 March 1868
Summary
Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 65–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6046 |
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