From W. W. Reade 25 March [1873]
Summary
H. W. Bates says CD is in town. WWR would like to call.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8822 |
From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
From G. B. Thornbery 27 March 1873
Summary
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Author: | Gregory Beddome Thornbery |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 316 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8827 |
From N. D. Doedes 27 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8828 |
From A. G. Butler 27 March 1873
Summary
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829 |
From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
From Marian Evans 31 March 1873
Summary
The Leweses will be happy to see the Litchfields, and hope CD will come again, with Emma.
Author: | Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Collection (GEN MSS 963) Box 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8832 |
letter | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |