[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 |
To James Torbitt 16 June 1880
Summary
Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 16 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12637 |
To A. C. Ramsay 17 June 1880
Summary
Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 17 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638 |
To W. E. Darwin 18 June 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12639 |
To W. C. McIntosh 18 June 1880
Summary
Asks for information about worms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Carmichael McIntosh |
Date: | 18 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 351 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12640 |
To E. B. Tylor 19 June [1880]
Summary
Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | 19 June [1880] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12641 |
To E. H. Stanley 25 June 1880
Summary
Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
Date: | 25 June 1880 |
Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642F |
To W. E. Gladstone June 1880
Summary
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | June 1880 |
Classmark: | Roundell 1880, pp. 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647F |
To John Murray 13 June [1880]
Summary
Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 June [1880] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9491 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Baildon, H. B. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Baildon, H. B. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |