To J. N. Hoare 16 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the information about the passages in Xenophon and Horace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Newenham Hoare |
Date: | 16 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689F |
To Michael Foster 16 April 1871
Summary
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689G |
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 17 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks BvC for the present of his book, Sittlichkeit und Darwinismus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7695F |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 April 1871
Summary
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7698 |
To Hermann Hoffmann 20 April [1871]
Summary
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7702 |
To St G. J. Mivart 21 April [1871]
Summary
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 21 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703A |
To R. F. Cooke 22 April [1871]
Summary
Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.
Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.
The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 285–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7705 |
To H. M. Westropp 22 April [1871]
Summary
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 350 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7706 |
To Francis Darwin 22 April [1871?]
Summary
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708A |
To John Murray 23 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.
JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 240–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7709 |
To Elliott & Fry 23 April [1871]
Summary
Gives permission for the photographer to come to Down, but states that O. J. Rejlander has recently taken several photographs of him which would be available to purchasers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elliott & Fry |
Date: | 23 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7710A |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 April [1871]
Summary
Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7713 |
To Hinrich Nitsche 25 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks HN for photographs of his ears and one showing the form of the ears in a foetal orang. He will show them to a wood-engraver when a new edition of Descent is called for [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hinrich Nitsche |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Sondersammlungen (Sammlung Liebeskind/XI/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7714 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
To Henry Johnson 25 April [1871?]
Summary
Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7718 |
To Williams & Norgate 27 April [1871]
Summary
Requesting information about the publication history of Lavater 1820.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 27 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Scrope-Howe family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722F |
To F. T. Köppen 28 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FTK’s locust paper ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
Date: | 28 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 1, 1 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7723 |
To William Ogle 29 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses action of the platysma in a state of fear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 29 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.394) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7726 |
To E. B. Tylor 30 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | 30 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7727 |
To William Preyer 30 April 1871
Summary
Is sending copy of Descent.
Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].
Discusses shape of external ear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 30 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 265–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7729 |
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Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Balch, C. L. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Balch, C. L. | (1) |
Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Davis, E. J. | (1) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Elliott & Fry | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Fraser, George | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Harrison, Frederic | (1) |
Hoare, J. N. | (1) |
Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
Knight, J. P. | (1) |
Köppen, F. T. | (1) |
Le Couteur, John | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Morley, John | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Nitsche, Hinrich | (1) |
Pfeiffer, E. J. | (1) |
Preyer, William | (1) |
Stevenson, Louisa | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
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Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Woolner, Thomas | (1) |