To Adolf Ernst 5 January 1880
Summary
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12402 |
To Ernst Krause 5 January 1880
Summary
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12403 |
To Vincent, Teja & Co 5 January 1880
Summary
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vincent, Teja & Co. |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405 |
To C. H. Tindal 5 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405F |
To J.-H. Fabre 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12406 |
To William Cole 6 January 1880
Summary
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cole |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12407 |
To J. T. Murray 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thomas Murray |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12408 |
To Antonio Mendola 8 January [1880]
Summary
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antonio Mendola |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409F |
To A. S. Wilson 8 January 1880
Summary
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 369 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
To Alfred Krakauer 12 January 1880
Summary
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Krakauer |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419A |
To Lawson Tait 13 January 1880
Summary
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12420 |
To Jabez Hogg 14 January 1880
Summary
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jabez Hogg |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12424 |
To Lawson Tait 15 January [1880]
Summary
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12425 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 January [1880]
Summary
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12431 |
To Asa Gray 19 January 1880
Summary
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12433 |
To Ernst Krause 19 January 1880
Summary
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12434 |
To Asa Gray 20 January [1880]
Summary
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12436 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January 1880
Summary
Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12437 |
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| Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
| Krause, Ernst | (13) |
