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From Alfred Newton   1 April 1879

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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

From Reginald Darwin   2 April 1879

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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

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

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

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

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

From Reginald Darwin   9 April 1879

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Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].

RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Reginald Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 152–153
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11983

From V. H. Darwin   9 April 1879

Summary

Gives some examples of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s benevolence; will forward some books that may interest CD.

Author:  Violetta Harriot Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11985

From Reginald Darwin   18 April 1879

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Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].

Author:  Reginald Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 154–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11987

From V. H. Darwin   12 April [1879]

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Discusses material for Erasmus Darwin including an engraved portrait by Joseph Wright.

Author:  Violetta Harriot Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 166
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11988

From B. W. Richardson   12 April 1879

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He has nothing at all to send in answer to CD’s questions respecting the book on Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Benjamin Ward Richardson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 196
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11989

From V. H. Darwin   13 April [1879]

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Sends her sketch of [Breadsall] Priory, as renovated by present owner.

Author:  Violetta Harriot Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 167–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11991

From C. M. C. Darwin   14 April 1879

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Answers CD’s query about Robert Darwin of Lincoln’s Inn.

Sends an introduction for Leonard Darwin to their tenants at Elston Hall.

Author:  Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 138–41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11994

From C. M. C. Darwin   16 April [1879]

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Thanks CD for offer of his portrait.

Suggests a solicitor who has Darwin papers and who may have information about Cleatham.

Describes her portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Author:  Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 142–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11996

From C.-F. Reinwald   17 April 1879

Summary

Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.

A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.

Second edition of Descent selling out.

CD’s botanical books are losing money.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 176: 109
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11998

From Wilhelm Breitenbach   17 April 1879

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Observations on unusual mating behaviour of canaries.

Author:  Wilhelm Breitenbach
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 293
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11999

From Raphael Meldola   18 April 1879

Summary

Comments on the branchiate trichopteran specimen from Fritz Müller sent previously.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12001
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