To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
Classmark: | Empire Auction (dealers) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
To ? [1876?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 21 March 1876
Summary
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423F |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May 1876 |
Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537 |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537F |
To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To ? 30 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10552 |
To ? 21 December 1876
Summary
Sends his signature
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728F |
To ? [1876]
Summary
Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10745 |
To ? 26 February 1877
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | eBay (September 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871A |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
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