To Athenæum 24 January 1880
Summary
[Draft letter that was never sent, headed "First letter disapproved by everybody" in CD’s hand.] Explains that he had, in fact, mentioned in the MS of his part of Erasmus Darwin that Krause had added to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos. During subsequent revision, this mention was accidentally omitted. [Apropos of S. Butler’s charges against CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–B101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12439 |
To Horace Darwin 1 January 1880
Summary
Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392 |
To Samuel Butler 3 January 1880
Summary
Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12396 |
To Joseph Prestwich 3 January 1880
Summary
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12397 |
To B. J. Sulivan 3 January 1880
Summary
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 515 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399 |
To Ercole Ricotti 4 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ercole Ricotti |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399F |
To A. R. Wallace 5 January 1880
Summary
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12401 |
To Adolf Ernst 5 January 1880
Summary
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12402 |
To Ernst Krause 5 January 1880
Summary
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12403 |
To Vincent, Teja & Co 5 January 1880
Summary
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vincent, Teja & Co. |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405 |
To C. H. Tindal 5 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405F |
To J.-H. Fabre 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12406 |
To William Cole 6 January 1880
Summary
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cole |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12407 |
To J. T. Murray 6 January 1880
Summary
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thomas Murray |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12408 |
To Antonio Mendola 8 January [1880]
Summary
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antonio Mendola |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409F |
To A. S. Wilson 8 January 1880
Summary
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 369 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
To Alfred Krakauer 12 January 1880
Summary
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Krakauer |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419A |
To Lawson Tait 13 January 1880
Summary
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12420 |
To Jabez Hogg 14 January 1880
Summary
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jabez Hogg |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423F |
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| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
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| Darwin, Horace | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
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| Darwin, Elizabeth | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fabre, Jean-Henri | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Cole, William | (1) |
| Darwin, Sara | (1) |
| Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
| Ferguson, C. E. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hogg, Jabez | (1) |
| Hooker, Hyacinth | (1) |
| Jardine, Hyacinth | (1) |
| Krakauer, Alfred | (1) |
| Mendola, Antonio | (1) |
| Murray, J. T. | (1) |
| Prestwich, Joseph | (1) |
| Ricotti, Ercole | (1) |
| Rolleston, George | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Symonds, Hyacinth | (1) |
| Tindal, C. H. | (1) |
| Vincent, Teja & Co. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Welcker, Hermann | (1) |
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