To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1871 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
To John Lubbock 17 November 1871
Summary
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8072 |
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
From John Lubbock 18 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7598 |
From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock 3 December [1871]
Summary
Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.
Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 3 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8091 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
To J. J. Weir 19 October 1871
Summary
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8018 |
From Nevil Maskelyne 8 December 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.
Author: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8100 |
From J. F. McLennan 21 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].
He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7913 |
From K. T. E. von Siebold 29 November 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copies of the Origin and Cirripedia;
sends his latest publication in return [Beiträge zur Parthenogenesis der Arthropoden (1871)]. Discusses his work on parthenogenesis which, he believes, is a case of atavism.
Author: | Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088 |
To E. B. Tylor 24 September [1871]
Summary
CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | 24 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7966 |
From Andrew Smith 16 May 1871
Summary
Disagrees with CD and especially with Lubbock and McLennan about communal marriage. [See Descent 2: 361–3.]
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 179–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7760 |
To Nevil Story-Maskelyne 6 December 1871
Summary
Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.
Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne |
Date: | 6 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 88953/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8098F |
From Michael Foster 25 June 1871
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7831 |
From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Summary
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 December [1871]
Summary
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122G |
From J. V. Carus 28 May 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7774 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
To J. B. Innes 18 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.
Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7445 |
From H. M. Westropp 20 April [1871]
Summary
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
Author: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703 |
letter | (25) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Story, Nevil | (2) |
Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Chambers, Annie | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Story, Nevil | (3) |
Story-Maskelyne, Nevil | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |