From Ernst Krause 7 January 1880
Summary
Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409 |
To Antonio Mendola 8 January [1880]
Summary
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Antonio Mendola |
Date: | 8 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12409F |
From F. B. Goodacre 7 January 1880
Summary
FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.
Author: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12410 |
To A. S. Wilson 8 January 1880
Summary
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 January 1880
Summary
Gratified by CD’s praise.
Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].
Efforts to secure a post.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B142–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12412 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
From Asa Gray 12 January 1880
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12416 |
From Lawson Tait 12 January 1880
Summary
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12418 |
To Alfred Krakauer 12 January 1880
Summary
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Krakauer |
Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419A |
To Lawson Tait 13 January 1880
Summary
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12420 |
From J. I. Rogers 13 January 1880
Summary
Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12422 |
From W. C. Williamson 13 January 1880
Summary
Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423 |
To Jabez Hogg 14 January 1880
Summary
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jabez Hogg |
Date: | 14 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12424 |
To Lawson Tait 15 January [1880]
Summary
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12425 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 15 January 1880
Summary
The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12426 |
From Ernst Krause 16 January 1880
Summary
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12427 |
From Lawson Tait 18 January [1880]
Summary
The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 213–214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12430 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 January [1880]
Summary
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12431 |
From Hermann Welcker 18 January 1880
Summary
Sends publications.
Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.
Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.
Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.
Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.
Author: | Hermann Welcker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12432 |
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