From C. C. Blake 10 July 1879
Summary
Points to CD’s favourable notice of his anthropological work;
details current financial difficulties and work efforts. Asks to borrow £5.
Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12144 |
From G. H. Darwin 10 July 1879
Summary
Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12145 |
From Reginald Darwin 11 July 1879
Summary
Is gratified if he has helped [with Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for another consignment of family records.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 158–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12146 |
From J. L. Chester 11 July 1879
Summary
Does not believe that deeds will throw light on the first William Darwin and his ancestors, but they will have much of interest for CD’s researches [for Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Joseph Lemuel Chester |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12147 |
From Ernst Haeckel 12 July 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes work on Medusae.
Describes work on Challenger Radiolaria and publication plans.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12148 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 July 1879
Summary
CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.
Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 87; unknown |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12149 |
To Ernst Krause 12 July [1879]
Summary
Relieved to hear that EK approves of his notice [preface for Erasmus Darwin]. Is reflecting on idea that it might appear after EK’s article as "an additional or supplementary notice".
Grieved to hear that Grant Allen has been accused of plagiarism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 12 July [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12150 |
To J. L. Chester 12 July 1879
Summary
Thanks for assistance. Nothing more should be done at present about the deeds. JLC’s letter sent to CD’s son [George].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Lemuel Chester |
Date: | 12 July 1879 |
Classmark: | Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12151 |
To Francis Darwin 12 July [1879]
Summary
Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.
Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.
Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12152 |
To Leonard Darwin 12 July [1879]
Summary
Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 12 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12153 |
From G. H. Darwin 13 July 1879
Summary
Sorry to hear Henrietta’s opinion of the [Erasmus Darwin] proofs. GHD did not think it dull. He makes some suggestions.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12154 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 July 1879
Summary
Thanks AD for the handsome Annual Report of the Zoological Station (1878). Rejoices at its success and its great service to science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 13 July 1879 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 703) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12155 |
To James Paget 14 July 1879
Summary
Returns an "old book" [? Baeta, Comparative view of the theories and practice of Drs Cullen, Brown and Darwin (1800); see Erasmus Darwin, p. 107]. Glad to see that Dr Erasmus Darwin’s views on fever were attended to.
Fears his life of Dr Darwin will be a poor affair. "Never again will I be tempted out of my proper work."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 July 1879 |
Classmark: | Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Miscellaneous MSS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12156 |
From J. B. Innes 14 July 1879
Summary
Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12157 |
To E. H. O’Callaghan 14 July 1879
Summary
"… hardly any event seems to me of such great importance as the settling of Australia, New Zealand, &c &c by the so called Anglo Saxons". CD thinks this due to population pressure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. H. O’Callaghan |
Date: | 14 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12158 |
To Ernst Haeckel 15 July 1879
Summary
Suggests possible visit by EH.
Comments on EH’s research.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 15 July 1879 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/48 [A 9902]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12159 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 12 July] 1879
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 12 July] 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B7–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12160 |
From W. S. Dallas 15 July 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for sending volumes of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s works. Hopes to finish Krause’s MS in a fortnight.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 110–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12161 |
From Ernst Krause 16 July 1879
Summary
Rejects proposal that CD’s sketch appear as a supplement or appendix to his own. Offers alternative suggestions. Proposes title-page for German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12162 |
To J. V. Carus 17 July 1879
Summary
Gives an account of his publication plans for his and Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin.
CD has never even dreamed of publishing his own autobiography.
Is now working, with Francis, on plant movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 July 1879 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 172–173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12163 |
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Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
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Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
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Darwin, Francis | (8) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Krause, Ernst | (5) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Chester, J. L. | (2) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, Reginald | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Paget, James | (2) |
Rich, Anthony | (2) |
Wilks, Samuel | (2) |
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Carus, J. V. | (1) |
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