To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Summary
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock 22 October 1879 …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct 1879 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … 1879, p. 1; Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 165). John Lubbock married Ellen in 1856. The Crystal …
To H. N. Moseley 23 and 30 January 1879
Summary
Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Date: | 23 and 30 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843F |
From H. N. Moseley 21 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for accepting dedication.
Asks CD to support his candidacy for position as Registrar of the University of London by talking to Sir John Lubbock, one of the most influential members of the Senate.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 257 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11840 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 October 1879
Summary
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 131–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12242 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 December 1879
Summary
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 491–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12360 |
From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
From Grant Allen 12 February 1879
Summary
Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.
| Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11873 |
To Grant Allen [before 21 February 1879]
Summary
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Date: | [before 21 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11891 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Allen, Grant | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
