From W. S. Dallas 5 February 1880
Summary
Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.
Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 133–134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12462 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 July 1880
Summary
The article [Francis Darwin, "Climbing plants"] has appeared in Popular Science Review [n.s. 4 (1880): 213–29].
Asks CD to allow John [Richard de Capel] Wise to dedicate a poem to him.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12649 |
From W. S. Dallas 28 July 1880
Summary
John Wise is much pleased by CD’s permitting the dedication of Wise’s poem to him; it will be an ouvrage de luxe, with drawings by Walter Crane [The first of May, a fairy masque; presented in a series of 52 designs by Walter Crane (1881)].
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12670 |
From W. S. Dallas 6 October 1880
Summary
Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12738 |