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 |
From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
Author: | Nemo |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
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 Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
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 Nature [before 2 November 1876]
Summary
Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 2 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10660 |
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 H. W. Bates 20 April [1876]
Summary
Asks for information he needs for the German translation [of Coral reefs], including correct titles of reference books and the name of a voyager.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 20 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5066 |
To W. E. Darwin [before 30 November 1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5771 |
From George Henslow [c. 7 December 1876]
Summary
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 7 Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8204 |
From Japetus Steenstrup [after 11 September 1876]
Summary
Thanks CD for sending a photograph.
Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632G |
From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
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