To ? [9 December 1874, 14 December 1875, or 10 January 1877]
Summary
Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724F |
To ? 24 December [1874–81]
Summary
Sends compliments and thanks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Dec [1874-81] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 21, 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778G |
To William Ogle [4 December 1874, 10 December 1875, 17 December 1875, or 12 January 1877]
Summary
Invites WO to lunch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | [4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 [December 1874 or January 1875?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9221 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 December [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 349 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9739 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 December [1874]
Summary
Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9741 |
To Thomas Belt 3 December [1874]
Summary
Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | 3 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9742 |
To G. H. Darwin [6 December 1874]
Summary
Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9746 |
To G. J. Romanes [7 December 1874]
Summary
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [7 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9747 |
To John Fiske 8 December [1874]
Summary
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 8 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9749 |
To F. C. Noll 8 December [1874]
Summary
Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Carl Noll |
Date: | 8 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Historische Sammlungen EH 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9750F |
To G. J. Romanes [9 December 1874]
Summary
Invites GJR to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [9 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9751 |
To C.-F. Reinwald [12 December 1874]
Summary
Thanks for translation of his Journal of researches. Is pleased by its appearance.
Also thank Edmond Barbier for his kind words. [See 9752.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Date: | [12 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9752A |
To Theodor Eimer 12 December 1874
Summary
Thanks for work on Lacerta muralis coerulea [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 2 (1874)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer |
Date: | 12 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9755 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 December 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for his and Huxley’s countering of the false attack on George [Darwin] by Mivart. Encloses a note to Mivart on which he asks JDH’s opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 350–1, DAR 97: C73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9757 |
To John Murray 14 December 1874
Summary
Sends a suggested title [for Insectivorous plants?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 342–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9758 |
To St. G. J. Mivart 14 December 1874
Summary
Asks StGJM to confirm that he is the author of the article on Tylor and Lubbock ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] in which an attack was made on George Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 14 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9759 |
To John Lubbock 15 December [1874]
Summary
Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.
Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9760 |
To G. J. Romanes 16 December 1874
Summary
Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].
Discusses breeding and sterility.
Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.
Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 16 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9762 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 December 1874
Summary
Asks four favours: sort out confusion about the name Byblis gigantea or grandiflora; can he see dried specimens of Genlisea ornata; is there a more recent list of Drosera spp. than Steudel 1841; are there at Kew any dried specimens of Utricularia montana collected from the plant’s native haunts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9763F |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Dodel-Port, Arnold | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Dodel-Port, Arnold | (2) |