To Athenæum 1 February 1880
Summary
[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12449 |
To Wallis Nash 1 February 1880
Summary
Can well understand WN’s new life. WN’s departure a heavy loss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12446 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 February 1880
Summary
Asks THH to advise him about a response to Samuel Butler’s attack accusing CD of dishonesty. Quotes the advice of others but will do what THH advises.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 336) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12451 |
To R. B. Litchfield 2 February 1880
Summary
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12453 |
To G. J. Romanes 3 February 1880
Summary
Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.
Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12454 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 February [1880]
Summary
Greatly relieved by THH’s letter [advising against a reply to Samuel Butler].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Feb [1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 338) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12458 |
To Ernst Krause 4 February 1880
Summary
Samuel Butler’s fierce attack on CD and EK in Athenæum. CD’s sentence saying that EK had altered his Kosmos article was accidentally omitted from second proofs. Butler insinuates that EK’s attack on his book was suggested by CD or interpolated by him in EK’s text.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 4 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12459 |
To W. Z. Seddon 4 February 1880
Summary
Comments on colours of races of man. Wishes WZS "or anybody else" could account for them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Zaccheus Seddon |
Date: | 4 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 461 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12460 |
To G. J. Romanes 5 February 1880
Summary
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12461 |
To Ernst Krause 9 February 1880
Summary
CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.
Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 9 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12468 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for his very kind letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 12 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12474F |
To Lawson Tait 13 February 1880
Summary
CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12475 |
To Ernst Krause 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks EK for kind letter.
CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12476 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12477 |
To A. S. Wilson 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 370 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12478 |
To Lawson Tait 14 February 1880
Summary
Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 14 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 535 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12481 |
To Anton Dohrn 15 February 1880
Summary
Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.
CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12483 |
To George Bentham 16 February 1880
Summary
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12485 |
To Asa Gray 17 February 1880
Summary
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12489 |
To William Cole 17 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cole |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12491 |
Krause, Ernst | (3) |
Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Tait, Lawson | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Krause, Ernst | (3) |
Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |