To R. F. Cooke 18 November [1879]
Summary
Thinks W. P. Garrison’s book [extracts from Journal of researches for juvenile readers] would serve as an advertisement for the Journal.
Disappointed at sale of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 364–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12327 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 April [1875]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9930 |
From John Jeremiah 11 March 1871
Summary
Case of cat transmitting a habit to her offspring.
| Author: | John Jeremiah |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7572 |
From W. P. Garrison 9 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".
| Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12302 |
Wedgwood, M. S. (1843–1937)
Matches: 1 hit
- … letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. 2,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,20,23,WSL,26,29 Wedgwood, Caroline Wedgwood, Josiah, Darwin, C. R. …
To J. D. Hooker [30 October 1863]
Summary
Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4324 |
From Edward Parfitt 31 October 1881
Summary
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.
| Author: | Edward Parfitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13445 |
Ludwig, Camilla (1837/8–1912)
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from R. S. Pattrick, 19 October 1881 England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ) , 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 1 February 2016) Surrey, England, Church of England marriages, 1754–1937 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 October 2018) 8,9,10,12,13,14,16,19,20,WSL,24,29,30 Darwin family Darwin, C. R. …
From J. J. Weir 23 March 1868
Summary
Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 61–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6041 |
From R. I. Thompson 27 April 1871
Summary
About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.
| Author: | Ralph Ingham Thompson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722 |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 20 December 1875
Summary
Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (20 December 1875), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10311 |
To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
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