To Hubert Airy [before 21 January 1873]
Summary
Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | [before 21 Jan 1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8744 |
To J. D. Baldwin 21 January [1873]
Summary
Discusses JDB’s views on the spread of human-like creatures across the world, and the development of language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Denison Baldwin |
Date: | 21 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Steven S. Raab (dealer) (September 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8746F |
To G. H. Darwin 22 January 1873
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8747 |
To J. V. Carus 23 January 1873
Summary
Acknowledges correction in text of Variation . "You are a most conscientious editor & are as careful as I am apt to be careless."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 23 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 100–101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8748 |
To John Chapman 1 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8751F |
To James Paget 29 January [1873?]
Summary
Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Jan [1873?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8752 |
To ?[a New Orleans newspaper] [c. February 1873]
Summary
CD responds to a poem, "Comus", and a New Orleans Mardi Gras editorial; he cannot tell from the "wonderful mistakes" whether the writer is "witty, ignorant, or blunders for the sake of fun".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | New Orleans newspaper |
Date: | [c. Feb 1873] |
Classmark: | Benfey (1997):179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8753F |
To J. V. Carus 1 February 1873
Summary
Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.
Thanks for reference JVC sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8754 |
To F. S. B. François de Chaumont 3 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].
CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
Date: | 3 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757 |
To W. B. Dawkins 3 February 1873
Summary
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 3 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757F |
To J. E. Gray 4 February [1873]
Summary
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 4 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8758 |
To Matthew Arnold 9 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks MA for his Literature and dogma [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Matthew Arnold |
Date: | 9 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8762 |
To F. B. Goodacre 11 February [1873]
Summary
Thinks FBG’s idea of a room at the British Museum of domestic birds and animals an excellent one, but a collection of plants would be much more difficult.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Date: | 11 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763F |
To C. I. F. Major 11 February 1873
Summary
Is sorry that CIFM has had to give up translating Expression into Italian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major |
Date: | 11 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (30 October 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763G |
To Gerard Krefft 17 February 1873
Summary
Is glad JLGK has been interested in Descent.
Thanks him for his observations on monkey behaviour [see 8698]
and drawings of skulls, which CD has sent to George Busk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8768 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 February 1873
Summary
Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.
Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 257–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8769 |
To George King 18 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for information on worm-castings. Comments on disintegration of castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 18 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8772 |
To W. M. Canby 19 February 1873
Summary
CD would like to know what were the sizes of insects caught by the older leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Marriott Canby |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | The Society of Natural History of Delaware |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8773 |
To Albert Gaudry 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776 |
To James Shaw 19 February 1873
Summary
Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 19 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8776A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (283) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |