From R. A. Job 23 December 1879
Summary
RAJ is the son of cousins and wishes to marry his cousin. Is anxious for information on consanguineous marriages and on the advisability of his proposed marriage.
Author: | Robert Arthur Job |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12369 |
From James Torbitt 25 December 1879
Summary
Reports that Phylloxera-resistant vines have been found in an infected region of Portugal.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12370 |
To Karl von Scherzer 26 December 1879
Summary
What a foolish idea seems to prevail in Germany on the connection between Socialism and Evolution through Natural Selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 26 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | LL 3: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12370F |
From C. E. Ferguson 27 December 1879
Author: | Charles Eugene Ferguson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12371 |
To James Torbitt 27 December 1879
Summary
Glad to hear about vines.
Hopes JT will be able to continue work without Government aid. "It is enough to sicken one to see how politicians waste their time squabbling and neglect doing any good."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 27 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12372 |
From Michele Lessona 28 December 1879
Summary
The Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded CD a 12000 franc prize for his work during the past four years.
Author: | Michele Lessona |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12373 |
From Anthony Rich 28 December 1879
Summary
New Year greetings.
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12374 |
From Antonio Mendola 29 December 1879
Summary
Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.
Author: | Antonio Mendola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12375 |
To C. H. Tindal 29 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for MS as it shows many of Erasmus Darwin’s ideas were formed 20 years before he published Zoonomia. Would like to publish last letter if there is a second edition of his little book. MS will be returned registered post.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (19 October 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12375F |
From Emil Witte 29 December 1879
Summary
Relates case of selective immunity to rinderpest.
Author: | Emil Witte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12376 |
From Ercole Ricotti 29 December 1879
Summary
CD awarded a prize of 12,000 lire in recognition of his recent research on plant physiology.
Author: | Ercole Ricotti |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12376A |
To A. S. Wilson 30 December [1879]
Summary
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 30 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 368 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12377 |
From W. M. Hacon 31 December 1879
Summary
WMH’s agent is coming to Down for CD to sign transfer of £5000 North Eastern Railway stocks. Horace is coming to his office to execute the marriage-settlement.
Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12378 |
To Horace Darwin [28 June 1879]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a statement of CD’s finances and estimate of the inheritance his children may expect] for HD and Ida to read; CD very pleased to be able to leave his children comfortably provided for.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [28 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 5, 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12384 |
From Victor Marshall [after 4 November 1879]
Summary
Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.
Author: | Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Nov 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390 |
To Henry Woodward 13 February [1879]
Summary
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Woodward |
Date: | 13 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12474 |
From C. V. Smith [1879]
Author: | Charles Valentine Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8131 |
To B. W. Richardson [before 30 May 1879]
Summary
Convinced from the experience of his father and grandfather that no cause has led to so much suffering and inherited ill-health as the consumption of alcohol.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Ward Richardson |
Date: | [before 30 May 1879] |
Classmark: | B. W. Richardson [1882], p. 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9223F |
From Jan van Bolhuis [13 November 1879]
Author: | Jan van Bolhuis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12315 |
From Ernst Krause 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12316 |
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