To ? 12 November 1874
Summary
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717F |
To Williams & Norgate [November 1874 – May 1880]
Summary
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – May 1880] |
Classmark: | Ms Caroline Waid (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028F |
To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8650F |
To John Fiske 3 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 3 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9706 |
To John Murray 5 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.
CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9710 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
To D. Appleton & Co. 5 November 1874
Summary
Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | D. Appleton & Co |
Date: | 5 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9713 |
To W. J. Beal 9 November 1874
Summary
Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William James Beal |
Date: | 9 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Sarah Baker Topper (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9713F |
To J. F. McLennan 10 November [1874]
Summary
Will send Alexis Giraud-Teulon’s book [Origines de la famille (1874)], which he has received but not read, if JFM cares to read it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Date: | 10 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 44 no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9715 |
To W. G. Kemp 11 November [1874]
Summary
Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Gustav Kemp |
Date: | 11 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9716F |
To Down School Board 16 November 1874
Summary
Must resign because of his health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down School Board |
Date: | 16 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9720 |
To F. T. Köppen 18 November 1874
Summary
Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
Date: | 18 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 3, 3 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9722 |
To G. H. Darwin 18 November [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724 |
To Ludwig Noiré 19 November [1874]
Summary
CD thanks LN for his book [Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes], which he hopes to read soon, but his poor German hampers him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ludwig Noiré |
Date: | 19 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170), Professor John C. Gray (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724G |
To J. V. Carus 20 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JVC for a correction to 2d English edition of Descent, which is now finished. 1350 copies were sold at Murray’s sale.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 20 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 125–126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9725 |
To George King 20 November 1874
Summary
Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 20 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 13 March 2002 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9726 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1874]
Summary
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9728 |
To R. B. Sharpe 24 November [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Date: | 24 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9731 |
To Leonard Darwin 25 November 1874
Summary
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9733 |
letter | (24) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Beal, W. J. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Beal, W. J. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |