To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 July 1871 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
To Nature 1 July [1871]
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846 |
To Edward Bartlett 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Bartlett |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7843 |
To A. G. Butler 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks AGB for "various notes".
Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7845 |
To C. V. Riley 1 July [1871]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.
Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].
Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846F |
To W. R. Grove 4 July [1871]
Summary
Has never before noticed with care the markings on finger-ends. Compares them to the complex whirl-pool patterns of human foetal lanugo.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
Date: | 4 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7849 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1871]
Summary
Lady Lyell’s anxiety over Lyell’s health.
Preparing new edition of Origin.
Asks whether anything was observed [in Morocco] on expressions.
Did JDH notice whether pollen-masses in Ophrys apifera in N. Africa fall on the stigma, as in England?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 197–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7850 |
To C. F. Bergstedt? 6 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks author of an anonymous Swedish review of CD’s works [in Samtiden, Vecksckrift för politik och litteratur, ed. C. F. Bergstedt, nos. 23–5 (1871): 358–64, 374–81, 390–7]. CD is surprised to learn the Origin has appeared in Swedish [1869].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Fredrik Bergstedt |
Date: | 6 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7852 |
To C. V. Riley 8 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for letter of introduction for his sons visiting America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 8 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (15 January 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7854F |
To A. R. Wallace 9 July [1871]
Summary
Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 9 July [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7855 |
To W. R. Grove 9 July [1871]
Summary
Does not think WRG’s theory [about ridges of skin on palm and finger-ends?] will hold.
Does not believe the beard in monkeys and goats could be protective like the lion’s mane.
Thanks him for fact about setters.
Is perplexed about the reported milk secretion in pubescent boys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
Date: | 9 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7856 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 July [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
To J. J. Moulinié 12 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks JJM for willingness to introduce corrections into French edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 12 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 22-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7859 |
To John Murray 13 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. Its "cutting" article [on Descent, 131 (1871): 47–90] is worthy of Mivart’s skill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 July [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 248–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7863 |
To Chauncey Wright 13 and 14 July [1871]
Summary
Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;
discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 13 and 14 July 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7865 |
To Asa Gray 16 July [1871]
Summary
CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7867 |
To Chauncey Wright 17 July [1871]
Summary
Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 17 July [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7869 |
To George Grove 17 July [1871]
Summary
The cat exhibition might provide information on unusual breeds of cats and their inheritance.
Expresses interest in deafness of white, blue-eyed cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Grove |
Date: | 17 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7870 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 July [1871]
Summary
One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7871 |
To James Croll 19 July [1871]
Summary
Introduces E. L. Youmans to correspondent. Youmans is seeking small monographs by the most competent English authors [for his International Scientific Series].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 19 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7874 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Grove, W. R. | (2) |
Riley, C. V. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Bartlett, Edward | (1) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bergstedt, C. F. | (1) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Caton, J. D. | (1) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Violetta | (1) |
Galton, Violetta | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Grove, George | (1) |
Grove, W. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lushington, Vernon | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Riley, C. V. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Wright, Chauncey | (2) |