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 |
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 |
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
Summary
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
Summary
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]
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
Summary
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]
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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
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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