To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.
Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].
Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8308 |
To R. F. Cooke [14 August 1872]
Summary
Is greatly relieved to hear that the estimate [of the Heliotype Company] was a mistake. Sends lettered copies of seven plates for Expression, and discusses payment to be made by foreign editors for copies of the plates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | [14 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 253–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8468 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1873]
Summary
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8799 |
From G. H. Darwin [c. 17 July 1871]
Summary
Gives CD some information on wills.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6765 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from G. H. Darwin, [18 October 1869] ); he was called to the bar on 30 April 1872, but …
- … G. H. Darwin, [17 July 1871] ). George studied law with Charles Meaburn Tatham from October 1869 until 1872 ( …
- … G. H. Darwin, [17 July 1871] ( Correspondence vol. 19). George had lodgings at 14 Arlington Street, London, while he was studying law from 1869 to 1872 ( …
To Amy Ruck [1 November 1872]
Summary
Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Nov 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8590 |
From G. H. Darwin [13 August 1872]
Summary
Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8500 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From G. H. Darwin [13 August 1872] …
- … G. H. Darwin, 13 August 1871 , and by the reference to the train accident near New Cross (see n. 6, below). In 1872, …
- … G. H. Darwin, 13 August 1871) . CD’s sister, Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . Marlborough Robert Pryor . The Great Eastern Railway accident on the Charing Cross to Dover line near New Cross took place on 13 August 1872 ( …
From R. F. Cooke 14 August 1872
Summary
Sends a set of plates [for Expression]. Price of the book must be 12s instead of 10s 6d, or 14s instead of 12s.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 415 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8469 |
To E. A. Darwin 20 September 1873
Summary
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9060 |
From R. F. Cooke 16 August 1872
Summary
Cost of plates [for Expression] is very high and will make "a terrible hole in the profits".
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 416 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8473 |
From G. H. Darwin 2 May 1872
Summary
Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 131–2, 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8307 |
From John Murray 6 November [1872]
Summary
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8602 |
From R. F. Cooke to G. H. Darwin 13 August 1872
Summary
Explains the cost of heliotype plates [for Expression] and the consequent need to raise the price of the book.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 414 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8467 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … G. H. Darwin 1872 ). Andrew Clark . Luke 14:9. Tant mieux (French): so much the better. …
- … G. H. Darwin 1875d ), published in the Fortnightly Review in February 1875. Bumming away: to ‘bum’ means to hum loudly or boom ( OED ). Contemporary Review . George’s article ‘Development in dress’ appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1872 ( …
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1873]
Summary
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1:14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9105 |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … G. H. Darwin, [17 July 1871] and n. 5. The New University Club, St James’s Street, London, was opened in 1864 for graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ( Lejeune 1979 ). William was a partner in the Maddison, Atherley, Hankinson and Darwin Bank in Southampton ( Banking almanac 1872, …
To H. K. Rusden [before 27 March 1875]
Summary
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Keylock Rusden |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1875] |
| Classmark: | Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 March 1875, p. 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin argued that lunacy should be grounds for divorce in G. H. Darwin 1873 , p. 418. In Rusden 1874 , p. 7, Rusden argued that some prehistoric societies attained a higher degree of civilisation than some later ones, and that even in historic times the progress of civilisation had been ‘intermittent’. Walter Bagehot discussed the definition of progress and the frequent lack of it in human societies in the final chapter of his Physics and politics ( Bagehot 1872 ). …
To G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877]
Summary
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11251 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (3) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Amy | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
| John Murray | (4) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (3) |
