To ? 23 October 1879
Summary
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Ronald T. Raines (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268F |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 October 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12242 |
From Ernst Krause 2 October 1879
Summary
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12243 |
To Harvard University Library? 2 October [1879]
Summary
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Harvard University Library |
Date: | 2 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Boston Public Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12244 |
To C. G. Semper 2 October 1879
Summary
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245 |
To Gustaf Retzius 2 October 1879
Summary
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245A |
From Gustaf Retzius 3 October 1879
Summary
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
Author: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12246 |
From W. P. Garrison 4 October 1879
Summary
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12248 |
To W. P. Garrison [after 4 October 1879]
Summary
Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
Date: | [after 4 Oct 1879] |
Classmark: | Garrison and Garrison 1885–9, 4: 199 n. 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12248F |
From W. S. Dallas 5 October 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1879]
Summary
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249F |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 6 October 1879
Summary
Thanks AD-P for part three of his Atlas [see 11039].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 6 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12250 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
To Karl Alberts 8 October 1879
Summary
John Murray could supply clichés of two woodcuts at a trifling cost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Alberts |
Date: | 8 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251F |
To Daniel Mackintosh 9 October 1879
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 9 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12252 |
From Eduard Schulte 23 October 1879
Summary
Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.
Author: | Eduard Schulte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12254 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October 1879
Summary
The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12255 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 October 1879
Summary
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 14 October 1879
Summary
DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12257 |
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Asher, G. M. | (1) |
Beke, Emily | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Garrison, W. P. | (1) |
Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
John Murray | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (1) |
Packard, A. S., Jr | (1) |
Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
Schulte, Eduard | (2) |
Sim, George | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
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