To W. E. Gladstone 2 October 1877
Summary
Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.
CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11163 |
To W. E. Gladstone 25 October [1877]
Summary
Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.
CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11207 |
To W. E. Gladstone 4 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12181 |
To W. E. Gladstone June 1880
Summary
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Roundell 1880, pp. 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647F |
To W. E. Gladstone [4 January 1881]
Summary
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | [4 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12975 |
To W. E. Gladstone 7 January 1881
Summary
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12987 |
To W. E. Gladstone 2 May 1881
Summary
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 2 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13142 |
To William Ewart Gladstone 14 May 1866
Summary
Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the fellows of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, stating the importance of separating the administration of the national natural history collections of the British Museum from that of the library and art collections, and placing it in the hands of one officer, immediately responsible to one of the Queen’s ministers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 14 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | Gunther 1975, p. 238 (facsimile of printed copy of memorial) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090F |
DCP-LETT-8407F
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8407F |
To W. E. Gladstone [before 16 January 1873]
Summary
Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | [before 16 Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9206F |
