To ? 9 January 1879
Summary
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823 |
To ? 23 January [1879?]
Summary
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1879?] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11841 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20 January 1879]
Summary
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10341 |
From James Torbitt [1879?]
Summary
Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1879?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11814 |
To Francis Darwin? [1879–80?]
Summary
Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1879–80?] |
Classmark: | DAR LIB 2003/2004 (in box with A. B. Frank, Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie, 1868, and Die natürliche wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen, 1870) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11816 |
To Albert Günther 1 January 1879
Summary
Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 1 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11817 |
From Marius Koch 3 January 1879
Summary
A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.
Author: | Marius Koch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11819 |
To Edward Frankland 4 January [1879]
Summary
Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 4 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820A |
From Mary Jung 7 January 1879
Summary
Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.
Author: | Mary Jung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11821 |
From Carl Kraus 8 January 1879
Summary
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11822 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
To W. E. Darwin 10 January [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11824 |
From Leopold Würtenberger 10 January 1879
Summary
Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.
Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11825 |
To Mary Jung 11 January 1879
Summary
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Jung |
Date: | 11 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11825F |
From C. H. Blackley 13 January 1879
Summary
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Author: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11826 |
To C. H. Blackley 14 January 1879
Summary
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
Date: | 14 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Formerly in the private collection of Dr T. B. Robinson |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11826F |
To Karl Höchberg 13 January 1879
Summary
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Höchberg |
Date: | 13 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11827 |
To Melchior Neumayr 15 January 1879
Summary
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Melchior Neumayr |
Date: | 15 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11829 |
To Leopold Würtenberger 15 January 1879
Summary
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Würtenberger |
Date: | 15 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Helmut Würtenberger (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11829F |
From Gaston de Saporta 16 January 1879
Summary
Sends his photograph; asks for CD’s.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11830 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Würtenberger, Leopold | (2) |
Batalin, A. F. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Moseley, H. N. | (2) |
Neumayr, Melchior | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Moseley, H. N. | (3) |
Neumayr, Melchior | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Würtenberger, Leopold | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Blackley, C. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Höchberg, Karl | (2) |
Jung, Mary | (2) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Batalin, A. F. | (1) |
Cheadle, W. B. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Koch, Marius | (1) |
Kraus, Carl (b) | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, Edmund | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Parker, W. K. | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Smith, C. V. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |