To Maria [1871–82]
Summary
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12386 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To ? 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7513 |
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
To ? 10 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7747 |
To ? 28 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7836F |
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 an editor 12 October [1871]
Summary
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8003 |
To ? 20 November [1871]
Summary
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8076 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To Miss Fenwick 8 February [1871–82]
Summary
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miss Fenwick |
Date: | 8 Feb [1871-82] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13806 |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
To A. B. Buckley 18 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508 |
To Louis Bertillon 18 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for his article Valeur philosophique de l’hypothèse du transformisme (Bertillon 1870), which is very clear.
Would not himself trust so much in Agassiz’s conclusions.
Glad the essay has been published, as he believes ‘there are but few in France who admit the doctrine of evolution’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis-Adolf (Louis) Bertillon |
Date: | 18 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Librairie la 42ème Ligne, Paris (dealers) (2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508F |
To T. H. Huxley [11 or 18 May 1871]
Summary
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [11 or 18] May 1871 |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541F |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
Cooke, R. F. | (14) |
John Murray | (13) |
Unidentified | (10) |