To J. W. Judd 25 August [1880]
Summary
Explains how to reach Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
Date: | 25 Aug [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12700 |
To T. M. Hughes 26 August 1880
Summary
CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 26 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12701 |
To F. M. Balfour 4 September 1880
Summary
Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.
In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.
Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12706 |
To R. P. Hardy 7 September 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ralph Price Hardy |
Date: | 7 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12708 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 September [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12710 |
To Adolf Ernst 11 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;
was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].
Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.
Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 11 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12711 |
To J. V. Carus 14 September 1880
Summary
Sends sheets of Movement in plants for translation, if JVC sees fit. It has some value and novelty, CD believes, but is very dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 14 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 179–180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12713 |
To Wilhelm Viëtor 16 September 1880
Summary
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Adolf Theodor Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Viëtor |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 194a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714 |
To B. D. Wrangham 16 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for sending him a copy of the striking passage from Kepler.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartlett Downs Wrangham |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 72756) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714G |
To J. V. Carus 21 September 1880
Summary
CD is ashamed of length of Movement in plants – with index, nearly 600 pages. JVC will be awfully sick of ch. 1.
In intervals of correcting proofs, he is writing on the formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms. It will be a curious little book [Earthworms].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 181–182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12718 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 21 September 1880
Summary
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 21 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12719 |
To T. M. Reade 22 September 1880
Summary
Obliged for paper ["Oceans and continents" (1880)].
Agrees that John Murray’s view [of coral reefs] is far-fetched.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 22 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12721 |
To Josiah Mason 22 September 1880
Summary
Sends formal regrets that he cannot accept luncheon invitation or attend Huxley’s address [at opening of Mason College, Birmingham].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Mason |
Date: | 22 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12722 |
To J. S. Keltie [after 24 September 1880]
Summary
Writes a sentence with which to preface B. G. Wilder’s letter [see 12726]. [Not used by and, perhaps, not sent to Nature.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Keltie |
Date: | [after 24 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 105v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12727 |
To George King 29 September 1880
Summary
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12730 |
To James Torbitt 29 September 1880
Summary
Rejoices at good news. Will let T. H. Farrer hear the result. Cannot see why some of new varieties should not endure fungus-proof for years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12731 |
To George King 2 October 1880
Summary
Glad GK will come. But cannot talk long to anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 2 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12735 |
To Ernst Krause 7 October 1880
Summary
Insists that EK take the profits from the English edition of Erasmus Darwin. EK’s essay is the valuable part of the book; CD’s is mainly gossip.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12740 |
To Sophy Wedgwood 8 October [1880]
Summary
Asks her to look for worm-castings in heath. Thinks heath conditions may be unfavourable. CD is sure Lucy would look with her, from her well-known affection for worms. Asks what sort of lantern Lucy used.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
Date: | 8 Oct [1880] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add 4251: 335) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12745 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 9 October 1880]
Summary
Discusses how fruits of lime-trees arranged themselves in a ripple-like way on a flooded walk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Oct 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12746 |
letter | (327) |
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) |