To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 23 May [1874 or 1875?]
Summary
"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 23 May [1874-5] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5098 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
To C. S. Tomes 16 February [1874]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance
Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Date: | 16 Feb [1874] |
Classmark: | Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (Spring 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8216F |
To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Wilhelm Spengel |
Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8650F |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
From H. H. Howorth 3 January [1874]
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8722 |
From C. S. Tomes [before 16 February 1874]
Summary
Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]
Author: | Charles Sissmore Tomes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9195 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 18 June 1874]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9201 |
From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
From W. J. L. Wharton [15 September 1874 or later]
Author: | William James Lloyd Wharton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Sept 1874 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A67–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9205 |
From H. H. Howorth [27 January 1874]
Summary
Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].
Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.
Author: | Henry Hoyle Howorth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9210 |
From J. S. B. Sanderson [1874]
Summary
Note on the chemical composition of teeth.
Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9214 |
To T. L. Brunton [1874–5?]
Summary
Comments on behaviour of babies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9215 |
To Francis Darwin [17 September 1874]
Summary
Asks FD to come early to write from dictation.
Thanks Amy for her drawing of Utricularia montana.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9218 |
To William Ogle [4 December 1874, 10 December 1875, 17 December 1875, or 12 January 1877]
Summary
Invites WO to lunch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | [4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219 |
To G. H. Ford [before 4 April 1874]
Summary
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Ford |
Date: | [before 4 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9220 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 [December 1874 or January 1875?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9221 |
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