To Joseph Fayrer [after 10 January 1881]
Summary
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [after 10 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 109v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13001 |
To Lawrence Ruck 10 January 1881
Summary
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lawrence Ruck |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | M. G. Hamer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13002 |
To Leslie Stephen 11 January 1881
Summary
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | 11 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13005 |
From A. B. Buckley 11 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.
Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.
Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13006 |
To F. M. Balfour 12 January 1881
Summary
Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 12 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13007 |
From Leslie Stephen 12 January [1881]
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B68–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13008 |
From Ernst Krause 12 January 1881
Summary
Has written to Balfour concerning the Butler affair.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13009 |
From A. B. Buckley 13 January 1881
Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 371 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13010 |
From W. E. Darwin 13 January [1881]
Summary
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13010F |
From F. M. Balfour 13 January [1881]
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13011 |
To Leslie Stephen 13 January 1881
Summary
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | 13 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13012 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
From Leslie Stephen 14 January 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13014 |
To William Ogle 17 January 1881
Summary
Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 17 (EH 88205915) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13015 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
To H. A. D. Seymour 20 January 1881
Summary
Sends address of A. R. Wallace. Comments on Wallace’s pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Alfred Damer Seymour |
Date: | 20 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.579) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13018 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 January [1881]
Summary
[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.
Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13019 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 20 [June] 1881
Summary
Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Date: | 20 [June] 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13021 |
To J.-H. Fabre 21 January 1881
Summary
Discusses JHF’s investigations of animals’ sense of direction. Suggests experiment involving magnetism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
Date: | 21 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13022 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 January 1881
Summary
Asks THH to sign a certificate of nomination to Geological Society for his son William, if an interest in geology is still enough to qualify for election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 358) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13023 |
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