To W. R. Browne 23 November 1881
Summary
Regrets that he cannot write the requested journal article on comparative anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (20 January 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13516F |
To E. F. Gladwin 28 November 1881
Summary
Hopes EFG pursues more worthy object than collecting autographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edgar Franklin Gladwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13517 |
From Asher & Co. 28 November 1881
Summary
An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.
| Author: | Asher & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13517F |
To Asher & Co. 29 November [1881]
Summary
Instructions to send parcel to Orpington Station, S.E.R.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asher & Co. |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13518 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 November 1881
Summary
BJS is looking forward to reading the life of Lyell [K. M. Lyell, Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols. (1881)].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 316 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13519 |
From J. C. Clutterbuck 29 November 1881
Summary
Sends specimen of soil and buried clay.
| Author: | James Charles Clutterbuck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13520 |
To J. C. Clutterbuck [after 29 November 1881]
Summary
Draft letter for Francis Darwin to write to JCC thanking him for the soil specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Charles Clutterbuck |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 182v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13522 |
From B. A. Irving 30 November 1881
Summary
Reports on the greener grass and the worm-castings found on the lines, which contain lime, of tennis courts.
| Author: | Benjamin Atkinson Irving |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13523 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 November 1881
Summary
Has received Earthworms.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13461 |
To Camilla Pattrick [after 6 November 1881]
Summary
Asks her to translate a letter by W. F. P. Pfeffer. Mentions views of Julius von Wiesner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
| Date: | [after 6 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.602) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13447 |
From Charles Layton 3 November 1881
Summary
Encloses statement of US sales of CD’s works and sends a cheque for the balance due to CD.
| Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13458 |
From R. F. Cooke 5 November 1881
Summary
Memorandum: "3500 Worms!!!" sold at annual sale; 117 Movement in plants; 180 "Naturalist" [Journal of researches]; 600 Origin; 320 Descent.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 523 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13460 |
To R. F. Cooke 6 November 1881
Summary
Discusses additional printing of Earthworms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13466 |
To K. M. Lyell 20 November 1881
Summary
Thanks for Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881), but he has already ordered a copy. Can he send the ordered copy to her to give to another, or can he send it on her behalf?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9–10 July 2018, lot 375) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13492F |
To D. F. Nevill 29 November 1881
Summary
Has much pleasure in signing the little book; is glad his book on earthworms interested her.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Daniel Plunkett (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13521 |
| letter | (95) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (2) |
| Clutterbuck, J. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
| Vines, S. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (2) |
