From W. E. Darwin [17 November 1871]
Summary
Says has sent a copy of CD’s memorial to Captain Jones. Passes on Sir Geo. Grey’s comments on pasturage near Morpeth. Tells superstition about straight furrows and fairies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8073F |
To W. E. Darwin [after 11 November 1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.
Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [after 11 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8039 |
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 Susan Darwin [1 April 1838]
Summary
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-407 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … R. W. Darwin ’s ‘Weighing Account’ book (Down House MS), CD’s weight had increased from 10 stone 8 1 4 lb on 7 October 1836 to 12 stone 5 oz on 18 October 1837 in the year after his return from the voyage. By the time of this letter, however, he may have been losing weight: on his next visit to Shrewsbury on the 13th of July he was down to 11 …
From David Forbes 30 January 1869
Summary
DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 143–143/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6584 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 October [1862]
Summary
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777 |
From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864]
Summary
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B14–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4514 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin Archive–CUL is annotated (see Marginalia 1: 837). See also letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 11. In 1869, Wallace published The Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1869 ), an account of his travels from 1854 to 1862. Henry Walter Bates had earlier published The naturalist on the River Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); for CD’s praise of Bates 1863 , see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to H. W. …
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
Matches: 1 hit
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
