To ? 21 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12006F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 1 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11964 |
From Alfred Newton 1 April 1879
Summary
Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11965 |
To Reginald Darwin 1 April 1879
Summary
The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.
Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11966 |
From Reginald Darwin 2 April 1879
Summary
Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.
Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11968 |
To Ernst Krause 2 April 1879
Summary
CD agrees entirely with EK’s proposal. Has collected a good deal of material. Useless to hunt for correspondence between Dr Darwin and Samuel Johnson. They met only once and hated one another. Dr Darwin is said to have taken Henry Brooke, who published a poem entitled "Universal beauty", as a model.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11969 |
To Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
To Elliott Coues [after 2 April 1879]
Summary
Memorial in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elliott Coues |
Date: | [after 2 Apr 1879] |
Classmark: | Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 4: 176–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970F |
From Nicolai Mengden 2 April 1879
Summary
NvM is 17 years old. Confused by reading CD’s works and Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. Can a believer in CD’s theory believe in God?
Author: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11971 |
To E. S. Galton 2 April [1879]
Summary
Parcel of drawings and MS arrived safely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11972 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 3 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11973 |
From Henry Reeks 3 April 1879
Summary
Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11974 |
From Raphael Meldola 4 April 1879
Summary
Sends specimens from F. Müller.
Criticises A. R. Wallace’s review of Grant Allen’s The colour-sense [Nature 19 (1879): 501–5].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11975 |
From V. H. Darwin 4 April 1879
Summary
Is interested to hear of CD’s life of Dr Erasmus Darwin. There is no photo of Breadsall Priory, but she would be happy to make a drawing of it.
Author: | Violetta Harriot Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11976 |
To Reginald Darwin 4 April 1879
Summary
Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.
Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11977 |
From H. G. Zeuthen 5 April 1879
Summary
CD made an ordinary member of the Royal Danish Academy. [See 11984.]
Author: | Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978A |
To C. M. C. Darwin 6 April 1879
Summary
Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.
His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.
Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978F |
From Henry Reeks 7 April 1879
Summary
Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11979 |
From Reginald Darwin 7 April 1879
Summary
Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].
Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.
Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11980 |
To Reginald Darwin 8 April 1879
Summary
Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.
The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.
Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11982 |
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Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Darwin, C. M. C. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Darwin, Reginald | (4) |
Darwin, V. H. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Galton, E. A. | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Mengden, Nicolai | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Pfeffer, Wilhelm | (1) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Richardson, B. W. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (2) |
Zeuthen, H. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Reginald | (5) |
Brunton, T. L. | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Darwin, C. M. C. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Reginald | (9) |
Darwin, C. M. C. | (5) |
Brunton, T. L. | (4) |
Darwin, V. H. | (4) |
Galton, E. A. | (4) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Wheler, E. A. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Newton, Alfred | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Torbitt, James | (2) |
Zeuthen, H. G. | (2) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Coues, Elliott | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Galton, E. S. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kellogg, Fanny | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Mengden, Nicolai | (1) |
Pfeffer, Wilhelm | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Richardson, B. W. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |