To ? 23 October 1880
Summary
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12771 |
To George King 2 October 1880
Summary
Glad GK will come. But cannot talk long to anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 2 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12735 |
To Ernst Krause 7 October 1880
Summary
Insists that EK take the profits from the English edition of Erasmus Darwin. EK’s essay is the valuable part of the book; CD’s is mainly gossip.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12740 |
To Sophy Wedgwood 8 October [1880]
Summary
Asks her to look for worm-castings in heath. Thinks heath conditions may be unfavourable. CD is sure Lucy would look with her, from her well-known affection for worms. Asks what sort of lantern Lucy used.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
Date: | 8 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add 4251: 335) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12745 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 9 October 1880]
Summary
Discusses how fruits of lime-trees arranged themselves in a ripple-like way on a flooded walk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Oct 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12746 |
To Romain Moniez 10 October 1880
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of R-LM’s book on parasitic worms. [Perhaps Essai monographique sur les cysticerques (1880) in vol. 3 of the Travaux of the Institut Zoologique de Lille.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Romain-Louis (Romain) Moniez |
Date: | 10 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Pierre Bergé (dealers) (22 November 2010, lot 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12751A |
To E. B. Aveling 13 October 1880
Summary
Publication of EA’s remarks on CD’s writings requires no consent on CD’s part. CD would prefer that no part or volume be dedicated to him as it would imply his general approval of the publication, of which he knows nothing. Though he is a strong advocate of free-thought CD feels that direct attacks on Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect. Freedom of thought is best promoted by gradual illumination of men’s minds produced by advance of science. Has therefore avoided writing on religion though "I may have been unduly biassed by the pain which it would give members of my family, if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Bibbens Aveling |
Date: | 13 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers D. 1014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12757 |
To Baxter, Payne, and Lepper 14 October 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Baxter, Payne, and Lepper |
Date: | 14 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12759 |
To C.-F. Reinwald 20 October 1880
Summary
CD has arranged with Murray for CR to have woodcuts at cost for proposed French translation [of Movement in plants].
Has sent £10 to Mme Barbier.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Date: | 20 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12768 |
To T. H. Thomas 22 October 1880
Summary
Thanks correspondent and H. J. Schaaffhausen for interesting photographs of fine footprints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Thomas |
Date: | 22 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW MS. 3127C no.12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12770 |
To S. T. Preston 25 October 1880
Summary
Comments on STP’s article on women ["Evolution and female education", Nature 22 (1880): 485–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
Date: | 25 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12775 |
To G. E. Mengozzi [before 28] October 1880
Summary
Does not believe any organic being is evidence of design; refers GEM to the last pages of Variation for his reasons. Even if no organism shows evidence of design, this does not preclude faith in the existence of a loving creator; evidence of such a creator must be looked for outside the limits of physical science.
Thanks him for the volume on the philosophy of medicine,
and asks him to convey to the Scuola Italica thanks for the great honour they have done him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi |
Date: | [before 28] Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Roma Etrusca 2 (1881): 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12778F |
To James Torbitt 29 October 1880
Summary
"Your secret shall be inviolable, and to make sure in case of my illness or death I have now burnt your letter."
Wishes JT success in commercial venture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 29 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12780 |
To Francis Galton 30 [October 1880]
Summary
Invites FG to lunch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 30 [Oct 1880] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12782 |
To A. B. Buckley 31 October [1880]
Summary
Has talked to Lubbock and Huxley about pension for Wallace. Asks for help in getting information about Wallace’s circumstances.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 31 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12785 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 October [1880]
Summary
Thanks THF for notes on Abinger excavation. Asks for more castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12749 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October 1880
Summary
THF’s copybook has cleared up all points. The castings are invaluable. Encloses further queries [missing].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12755 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1880]
Summary
Is worried about brick particles in worm-castings. Asks THF for castings from a site where possible error would be avoided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12756 |
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Farrer, T. H. | (6) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Aveling, E. B. | (1) |
Baxter, Payne, and Lepper | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Farrer, T. H. | (6) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Aveling, E. B. | (1) |
Baxter, Payne, and Lepper | (1) |
Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Hooker, Hyacinth | (1) |
Jardine, Hyacinth | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Mengozzi, G. E. | (1) |
Moniez, Romain | (1) |
Murie, James | (1) |
Preston, S. T. | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Symonds, Hyacinth | (1) |
Thomas, T. H. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wedgwood, Sophy | (1) |