To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
To ? 17 November [1870]
Summary
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993F |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870s?] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To ? 23 March [1870–1]
Summary
Declines offer of book on physics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Mar [1870-1] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7147 |
To ? 14 June [1870]
Summary
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7233 |
To ? 28 December [1870]
Summary
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402F |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 22 February [1870]
Summary
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 22 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13060 |
To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
To Thomas Woolner 10 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
Date: | 10 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6650 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6788 |
To Francis Darwin 5 December [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7021 |
To [Edward William Blore] [October 1870 or later]
Summary
Horace Darwin wishes to have private tuition to help him pass the "Little Go" and so CD wonders if he might be excused College lectures for the present, to prevent undue strain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Blore |
Date: | [Oct 1870 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7049 |
To Anton Dohrn 4 January 1870
Summary
The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.
Encloses a separate letter [formerly 7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].
Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 4 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 697); Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 296-7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7070 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 5 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 5 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7072 |
To Charles Boner [before 8 January 1870]
Summary
Has received [read?] CB’s two works [Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria (2d ed., 1860) and Forest creatures (1871)] and has made use of them in his present book [Descent].
CB’s descriptions of the Tyrol make CD long to be "strong and young again to ramble over the mountains".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Boner |
Date: | [before 8 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | Kettle ed. 1871, p. 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7073 |
To Albert Günther 13 January [1870]
Summary
Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 13 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7077 |
To Adolf Reuter 15 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks AR for specimens of fruit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 15 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 220–221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7079 |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Murray, John (b) | (10) |
Unidentified | (9) |
Sclater, P. L. | (8) |
Wallace, A. R. | (6) |