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]
Summary
Searching for the right gardener.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To B. J. Sulivan 15 October 1879
Summary
Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12258 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 16 October 1879
Summary
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12259 |
To W. P. Garrison 16 October 1879
Summary
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12260A |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1879]
Summary
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12261 |
To E. S. Morse 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12265 |
To Casimir de Candolle 21 October 1879
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12266 |
To John Lubbock 22 October 1879
Summary
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267 |
To George Sim 22 October 1879
Summary
Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sim |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Aberdeen City Libraries, Local Studies (George Sim papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12267F |
To Horace Darwin 23 October [1879]
Summary
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 258: 549 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268G |
To Asa Gray 24 October 1879
Summary
Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.
Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12269 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (2) |
| Mackintosh, Daniel | (2) |
| Alberts, Karl | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (2) |
| Mackintosh, Daniel | (2) |
| Alberts, Karl | (1) |
| Asher, G. M. | (1) |
| Candolle, Casimir de | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Dodel-Port, Arnold | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Harvard University Library | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Morse, E. S. | (1) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
| Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
| Schulte, Eduard | (1) |
| Semper, C. G. | (1) |
| Sim, George | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
