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From Ernst Krause   7 January 1880

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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

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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

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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]

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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

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Sends some cotton seeds for CD.

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

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"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

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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]

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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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