From W. E. Darwin 6 January 1881
Summary
Passes on legal advice.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980F |
From W. E. Gladstone 6 January 1881
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12981 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January 1881
Summary
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12982 |
To H. W. Bates 7 January 1881
Summary
Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12984 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 January [1881]
Summary
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12985 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January 1881
Summary
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12986 |
To W. E. Gladstone 7 January 1881
Summary
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12987 |
To A. B. Buckley 7 January [1881]
Summary
Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12988 |
To G. D. Campbell [7 January 1881]
Summary
Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll |
Date: | [7 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12989 |
To É. M. Heckel 7 January [1881?]
Summary
Sends photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881?] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12990 |
From W. R. Browne [after 7] January 1881
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12991 |
From T. H. Huxley 8 January 1881
Summary
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12992 |
From Ernst Krause 8 January 1881
Summary
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12993 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 January 1881
Summary
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12994 |
From James Torbitt 8 January 1881
Summary
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12995 |
From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 217–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12996 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To Ernst Krause 10 January 1881
Summary
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12998 |
From T. L. Brunton 10 January 1881
Summary
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12999 |
From Montagu Lubbock 10 January 1881
Author: | Montagu Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13000 |
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