To G. H. Darwin 2 November [1878]
Summary
Forwards pamphlet (Jules Carret 1878) to GHD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Institute of Astronomy Library, University of Cambridge (Jules Carret 1878: R.c.1473) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11733F |
To A. C. Ramsay 3 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for ACR’s Physical geology [5th ed. (1878)]; delighted with its success, proving there is a large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound geological science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 3 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11735 |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 November [1878]
Summary
Delighted with [William Thomson’s] report. "There can be no doubt now about the value of your work." CD has "not been so much pleased for a long time".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11740 |
To Emil du Bois-Reymond 12 November 1878
Summary
Sends thanks [for election to Prussian Academy of Sciences].
Appreciates the copy of address [Darwin versus Galiani (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond |
Date: | 12 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 214–215) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11742 |
To Benjamin Disraeli [15–18 November 1878]
Summary
A memorial signed by CD and many others, calling upon the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, to convene Parliament to discuss the ultimatum addressed to the Amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan, by the Viceroy of India, E. R. Bulwer-Lytton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield |
Date: | [15–18 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | Manchester Guardian, 19 November 1878, p. 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744F |
To G. A. Gaskell 15 November 1878
Summary
CD hopes GAG is right [see 11744]. His second law seems largely acted on in civilised societies. Evil that would follow from checking benevolence to weak and diseased would be greater than by allowing them to survive and procreate. CD doubts that artificial checks would be advantageous to the world at large. If birth could be prevented, and control were not thought immoral, "would there not be a danger of profligacy amongst unmarried women?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Arthur Gaskell |
Date: | 15 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11745 |
To Raphael Meldola 19 November [1878]
Summary
Invites RM to luncheon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 19 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11748 |
To M. D. Conway 19 November 1878
Summary
Glad to join Association of Liberal Thinkers and to pay usual subscription. Refuses any office and does not allow his name to be used to promote the association because neither his health nor his mental habits will allow him to take an active part.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 19 Nov 1878 |
Classmark: | Northwestern University Libraries, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections (Harriet Gilliam papers, box 18, folder 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11748F |
To G. J. Romanes 20 [November 1878]
Summary
CD will visit tomorrow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 20 [Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11750 |
To W. K. Parker? 20 November [1878]
Summary
Invites [WKP] to lunch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kitchen Parker |
Date: | 20 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11751 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 November [1878]
Summary
CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 207–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11753 |
To Francis Darwin [21 November 1878]
Summary
Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [21 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754 |
To Francis Darwin [22 November 1878]
Summary
Suggests experiment to detect salts deposited on surface of leaves.
Wants FD to have another go at horse-chestnut radicles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [22 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11755 |
To Edward Frankland 22 November [1878]
Summary
Asks whether he may call to discuss a chemico-physiological point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 22 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11755A |
To Raphael Meldola 25 November [1878]
Summary
CD sends his preface [to RM’s translation of August Weismann, Studies in the theory of descent (1882); Collected papers 2: 280–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 25 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives (SC MSS 003/B/1/048) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11757 |
To Raphael Meldola 26 November [1878]
Summary
Regrets he cannot compare his work with Weismann’s in his preface as he feels “an author is never a fit judge of his own work”. [Appended note explains that RM wished CD’s work to be fully acknowledged, which was frequently not the case in continental writings.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 26 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11759 |
To C. G. Semper 26 November [1878]
Summary
Discusses views of Moritz Wagner on modification of species. Two different cases: one in which a species is modified in the same country and cases in which a species splits. Glad CGS is taking up subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 26 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11760 |
To H. N. Moseley 26 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 26 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11762 |
To J. B. Innes 27 November [1878]
Summary
CD disappointed in Pusey’s sermon against evolution [Un-science, not science, adverse to faith (1878), sermon read by H. P. Liddon at St Mary’s, Oxford, on 3 Nov 1878]. Does not agree that religion and science can be kept as distant as Pusey desires. Geology and biology must deal with history of earth and of man. But that is no reason for bitter hostility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 27 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11763 |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Semper, C. G. | (2) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Semper, C. G. | (2) |