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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]

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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]

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Summary

Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches

and his health.

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]

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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?]

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Summary

Some essays have arrived for GHD.

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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