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 |
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
To Nature 15 August [1877]
Summary
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 23 August 1877, p. 339 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108 |
To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11245 |
To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
| Date: | [1877–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877]
Summary
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Veitch & Sons |
| Date: | [before 11 Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10749 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Summary
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
To Julius von Haast [c. 11 February 1877]
Summary
The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | [c. 11 Feb 1877] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10756 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [early 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
| letter | (291) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (20) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (10) |
| Carus, J. V. | (8) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
