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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

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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]

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Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.

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

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Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.

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]

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Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

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]

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Discusses earthworm activity

and animal grazing on slopes.

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]

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[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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