To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877]
Summary
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Veitch & Sons |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10749 |
From [W. T. Thiselton-Dyer] [after 22 September 1877]
Summary
Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Sept 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10750 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [June 1877 or later]
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1877 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 32–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10751 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 August 1877]
Summary
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10753 |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
To Julius von Haast [c. 11 February 1877]
Summary
The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | [c. 11 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10756 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 17 January 1877]
Summary
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B55–8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10757 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [early 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Summary
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
From Thomas Belt [before 18] January 1877
Summary
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18] Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10761 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From Arthur Mellersh 1 January 1877
Summary
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Author: | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10767 |
Darwin, C. R. | (309) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Romanes, G. J. | (10) |
Carus, J. V. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (600) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
Cooke, R. F. | (18) |
John Murray | (18) |