To St George Jackson Mivart 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 and 22 July 1988, pp. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5720A |
To J. V. Carus 10 December [1867]
Summary
Sends errata for German edition of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 35–36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5721 |
To Charles Kingsley 13 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5728F |
To A. C. L. G. Günther 21 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5735 |
To F. Du C. Godman 23 December [1867]
Summary
Will be pleased to receive FCG’s paper. Already has that of [G. R.] Crotch. Encourages further independent work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Du Cane Godman |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738F |
To Roland Trimen 24 December [1867]
Summary
Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5739 |
To John Smith 26 December [1867]
Summary
CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Smith |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5740 |
To John Murray 31 December [1867]
Summary
Introduces Clair Grece who wishes to translate a work on English grammar from the German.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 64–65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5743 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1867]
Summary
Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.
Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].
Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.
Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5992 |
To J. J. Moulinié 16 May [1867]
Summary
Sheets dispatched. Book [French edition of Variation] not so large as expected.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 16 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6176 |
To Francis Darwin 30 August [1867–70]
Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1867-70] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7312 |
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 22 May [1867]
Summary
Obliged for case of grafted ash.
Asks about pods of Arabis.
Would like to borrow Maillet [Telliamed (1750)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Date: | 22 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5545 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin 26 July [1867]
Summary
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 26 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5585 |
To Eduard Koch 13 December [1867]
Summary
English edition of Variation delayed by the index, ES may publish German edition at the end of December. Asks that Carl Gegenbaur be substituted for Haeckel on list of presentation copies of German edition, Haeckel will receive copy of English edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4o 333a. No 77, 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5727 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 8 June [1867–72]
Summary
Asks her to observe whether her dog exposes his teeth when barking and to think of any facts about expression in her birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 8 June [1867-72] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add 4251: 334) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7223 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Murray, John (b) | (18) |
| Carus, J. V. | (11) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (195) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Murray, John (b) | (18) |
| Carus, J. V. | (11) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
