To John Lubbock [8 August 1875 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses the time of the Duke’s arrival on Tuesday. [See 9968.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [8 Aug 1875 or earlier] |
Classmark: | Kenneth Hince Book Auctions (dealer) (8 November 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9968A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John …
- … To John Lubbock [8 August 1875 or earlier] …
- … Robert Darwin [8 Aug 1875 or earlier] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
- … 1875, Alice Lane Fox asked Ellen Frances Lubbock , John Lubbock’s wife, to pass on to CD a …
- … Down House on Monday 9 August 1875 ( John Lubbock’s diary, BL Add mss 62680); the meeting …
- … for Tuesday 11 May, but was postponed (see letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). …
From John Lubbock 7 July [1875]
Summary
Arrangements to invite the Duke [unidentified].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10047 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 7 July [1875] …
- … DAR 170: 78 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 7 …
- … between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] . Ellen Frances Lubbock . …
- … Francis, duke of Teck (see letter to John Lubbock, 3 May [1875] and n. 3). CD had just …
To John Lubbock 3 May [1875]
Summary
Arrangements to meet a Duke [unidentified] at High Elms [Lubbock residence].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 3 May [1875] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49644: 79–80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9968 |
From John Lubbock 5 April [1875]
Summary
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 198: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lubbock, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Lubbock 5 April [1875] …
- … DAR 198: 128 John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 5 …
- … you are better for your visit to London Believe me | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock …
- … between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 8 April 1875 . George Sketchley …
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 April [1875]
Summary
Richard Buckley Litchfield will soon be able to send CD revised copies of the bill.
Will write to Sir John Lubbock to ask if he will present the bill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9948F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 24 [April 1875]
Summary
CD has seen Sir John [Lubbock] who suggests that L. Playfair would be the best man to present the [vivisection] petition, but thinks the proposed bill much more important and useful. JL also suggests that the bill be given a more humanitarian aspect and that it be presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 [Apr 1875] |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9948 |
To R. B. Litchfield 24 April [1875]
Summary
Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Date: | 24 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9946 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 April 1875
Summary
Encloses a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938).
Sir John Lubbock has agreed to meet CD, but no arrangement has been made.
Maybe they should drop the petition, since Lord Derby has agreed to help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9939F |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly Review …
- … Review ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70). John Lubbock’s book was on British wild flowers ( …
- … John William. 1875. History of the conflict between religion and science. London: Henry S. King. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [ …
To E. B. Tylor [28 January 1875]
Summary
The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | [28 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9832 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly …
- … of the Royal Society of London in 1876. John Lubbock was also a member of the society. …
- … Lubbock in the Quarterly Review ( [Mivart] 1874 ). In the course of this work he made critical remarks about George Howard Darwin’s article on marriage ( ibid. , p. 70). See also Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix V. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 6 January 1875 and n. 1, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 . John …
From E. B. Tylor 29 January [1875]
Summary
Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?
Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9833 |
To St G. J. Mivart 12 January 1875
Summary
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 12 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9812 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1875]
Summary
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Feb [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 374–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9850 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 January 1875
Summary
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9800 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 5 January 1875
Summary
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9802 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1875
Summary
JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.
Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9820 |
To Gustavus Fritsche 27 October 1875
Summary
Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustavus Fritsche |
Date: | 27 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10230 |
To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
letter | (41) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Litchfield, R. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (6) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Fritsche, Gustavus | (2) |