To T. H. Huxley [7 May] 1880
Summary
Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [7 May] 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 289; Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12597 |
To James Dixon 8 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dixon |
Date: | 8 May 1880 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6604: 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12599 |
To W. E. Darwin [9 May 1880]
Summary
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [9 May 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12601 |
To James Torbitt 9 May 1880
Summary
Cannot offer any assistance in urging Government to aid JT’s experiments. Thinks best chance through [William Edward?] Forster. William Carruthers reported to Royal Agricultural Society that JT’s attempt was hopeless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 9 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12602 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 May 1880
Summary
Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 May 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 342); Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12604 |
To John Fiske 14 May [1880]
Summary
Invites JF to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 14 May [1880] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12606 |
To B. J. Sulivan 16 May [1880]
Summary
Lends BJS Titus Coan’s Adventures in Patagonia [1880].
Thanks him for copies of the missionary journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 16 May [1880] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12608 |
To Giovanni Canestrini 17 May 1880
Summary
Thanks GC for having sent his book [La teoria di Darwin criticamente esposta (1880)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Date: | 17 May 1880 |
Classmark: | The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12609 |
To J. Harris 21 May 1880
Summary
Cannot precisely explain conditions of existence of any organism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. Harris |
Date: | 21 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12614 |
To S. T. Preston 22 May 1880
Summary
Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
Date: | 22 May 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12615 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 28 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for AdeC’s Phytographie [1880]. CD finds in it a number of "philosophical" remarks new to him. The work would have been invaluable to him in dealing with puzzles when writing his cirripede monographs.
Describes his system of keeping notes on separate pieces of paper filed in several scores of large portfolios.
Has just sent MS of Movement in plants to the printer. Thinks he has suceeded in showing "that all the more important great classes of movements are due to the modification of a kind of movement common to all plants from their earliest youth".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 28 May 1880 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12618 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
[Williams & Norgate] 16 June [1880]
Summary
Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 June [1880] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619F |
To H. B. Baildon 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bellyse Baildon |
Date: | 9 June 1880 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12623 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 [June 1880]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 [June 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12624 |
To John Murray 9 June 1880
Summary
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 June 1880 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12625 |
To Henry Johnson 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 9 June 1880 |
Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR471) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12626 |
To G. H. Darwin 11 June [1880?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1880?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12628 |
To John Murray 11 June 1880
Summary
Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 11 June 1880 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12628F |
To Edward Vivian 11 June 1880
Summary
"The enclosed, evidently intended for you, has by a mistake been addressed to me."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Vivian |
Date: | 11 June 1880 |
Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR472) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12629 |
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Torbitt, James | (17) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
Krause, Ernst | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (327) |
Torbitt, James | (17) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (14) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |