To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To ? 20 August 1881
Summary
Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13292 |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13294G |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13296A |
To ? 5 September 1881
Summary
Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13317A |
To Nature [before 15 September 1881]
Summary
Quotes from a Fritz Müller letter of 9 Aug supporting CD’s views that leaves position themselves at night so as to minimise heat loss by radiation. It is a new fact to CD that leaves take different positions at different seasons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 15 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 15 September 1881, p. 459 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13338 |
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Dec 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To a librarian [c. June 1858 or later]
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Librarian |
Date: | [c. June 1858 or later] |
Classmark: | Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199F |
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860 or later] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
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