To C. W. Fox 10 [April] 1880
Summary
Condolences upon the death of CWF’s father, William Darwin Fox.
[Wrongly dated March by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Woodd Fox |
| Date: | 10 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12572 |
From Henry Woodward 10 April 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for his testimonial and congratulates him on "The coming of age of the ""Origin of Species""". [T. H. Huxley, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 9 (1879–81): 361–8; Collected essays, vol. 2.]
| Author: | Henry Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12573 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 [April] 1880
Summary
Sorry he missed THH’s lecture ["The coming of age of The origin of species", Royal Institution, 9 Apr 1880]. Has read press notices and heard from his children of its great success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 [Apr] 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 340) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12574 |
To G. B. Ercolani 14 April 1880
Summary
Thanks GBE for his great work on the placenta [Nuove ricerche sulla placenta nei pesci cartilaginosi e ne mammiferi (1880)]. The relationship between placental structure and mammalian classification has always seemed interesting to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Giovanni Battista Ercolani |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6543) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12575 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 April 1880
Summary
Wants Ipomoea seeds for observing germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12576 |
To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
From William Tearle [before 16] April 1880
Summary
Attempts to reconcile accounts of man’s creation in Origin and in Genesis, to both of which he is devoted.
| Author: | William Tearle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 16] Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12578 |
To William Tearle 16 April 1880
Summary
Comments on concept of revelation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Tearle |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12579 |
To [William Newton] 17 April 1880
Summary
Unable to comment on F. Lloyd’s criticism of Francis Galton’s Hereditary genius [?A scientific view of Mr Galton’s theories of heredity (1876)].
Sorry about Lloyd’s health.
Does not care much about abuse or fame, an advantage of age.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Newton |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12580 |
From C. C. Graham 17 April 1880
Summary
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
| Author: | Christopher Columbus Graham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12581 |
To Asa Gray 19 April 1880
Summary
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12582 |
From Ernst Krause 19 April 1880
Summary
Sends German edition of Erasmus Darwin.
[CD’s notes form part of a draft for 12586.]
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B58r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12583 |
To Horace Darwin 20 April [1880]
Summary
Gives advice regarding a house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12584 |
From John Fiske 20 April 1880
Summary
Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.
| Author: | John Fiske |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12585 |
To Edward Frankland 20 April 1880
Summary
May CD’s son send some bottles of water, in which Pelargonium leaves have been immersed, for more precise analysis of the potassium or other soluble ash? Can EF recommend a professional analyst to take on further experiments?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12585A |
To Ernst Krause 21 April 1880
Summary
Glad to receive the German edition of Erasmus Darwin. Hopes sales will be good. Favourable review has appeared in the United States, in the Nation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12586 |
From G. J. Romanes 22 April 1880
Summary
Preparing his book, Animal intelligence [1882].
Spent an afternoon with a spiritualist but did not learn anything.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12587 |
From Henry Pitman 24 April 1880
Summary
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".
| Author: | Henry Pitman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12589 |
From Hermann Müller 27 April 1880
Summary
Fritz Müller’s daughter has committed suicide.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 314 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12592 |
To J. V. Carus 28 April 1880
Summary
MS of Movement in plants in final stage. Fears it will displease many German physiologists. It is an attempt to bring all the diversified movements of plants under one general law or system.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 176–178) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12593 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Herzfeld, S. M. | (2) |
| Rouquette, Jules | (2) |
| Woodward, Henry | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, C. W. | (2) |
