To Athenæum 24 January 1880
Summary
[Draft letter that was never sent, headed "First letter disapproved by everybody" in CD’s hand.] Explains that he had, in fact, mentioned in the MS of his part of Erasmus Darwin that Krause had added to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos. During subsequent revision, this mention was accidentally omitted. [Apropos of S. Butler’s charges against CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 24 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–B101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12439 |
To Athenæum 1 February 1880
Summary
[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12449 |
To ? 19 March 1880
Summary
Henry Forbes in a letter to Moseley describes herons on the Keeling Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12538F |
To Nature 9 April [1880]
Summary
Forwards a letter from E. S. Morse on Omori shell mounds refuting F. V. Dickins’ review [Nature 21 (1880): 350] of Morse’s memoir ["The shell mounds of Omori", Mem. Sci. Dep. Univ. Tokyo 1 (1879) pt 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 9 Apr [1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 15 April 1880, p. 561 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12571 |
To ? 27 April 1880
Summary
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12591 |
To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
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 ? 5 November 1880
Summary
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12797 |
To Nature 5 November [1880]
Summary
Sir Wyville Thomson misunderstands natural selection when he says the theory "refers the evolution of species to extreme variation guided only by natural selection". CD demurs at the "extreme variation" and the "only". No one has said evolution depends only on natural selection. CD has adduced many facts on the effects of use and disuse and on the direct action of the environment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 5 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 November 1880, p. 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12800 |
To Nature [before 30 December 1880]
Summary
Quotes an extract from a letter from Mr Sanderson of Chislehurst on the disappearance of black or spotted sheep from Australian flocks when the coloured sheep ceased to be of use to man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 30 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Nature, 30 December 1880, p. 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12955 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey Winograd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300F |
To W. E. Darwin [before 16 September 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12383 |
To Williams & Norgate [before 4 September 1880]
Summary
Requests a list of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [before 4 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390F |
To Horace Darwin 1 January 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392 |
To Samuel Butler 3 January 1880
Summary
Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12396 |
To Joseph Prestwich 3 January 1880
Summary
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12397 |
To B. J. Sulivan 3 January 1880
Summary
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 515 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399 |
To Ercole Ricotti 4 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ercole Ricotti |
Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399F |
To A. R. Wallace 5 January 1880
Summary
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12401 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (327) |
Torbitt, James | (17) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |