To ? 6 January [1873 or 1874]
Summary
"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Jan [1873-4] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429A |
To ? 2 January [1873 or 1874]
Summary
CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Jan [1873-4] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 141 (Slg. Adam) 33, Darwin, Charles) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8139F |
To ? 9 January 1873
Summary
Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728F |
To the Spectator 11 January 1873
Summary
Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Spectator |
Date: | 11 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8731 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 28 January [1873]
Summary
Is pleased that HHHvZ has appended his notes to his translation [of Expression and is obliged for the abstract of these notes [see 8712].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 28 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 68, 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11337A |
To J. D. Hooker 27 January [1873]
Summary
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 253–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8185 |
To Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority [1873?]
Summary
Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority |
Date: | [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8704 |
To Francis Galton 4 January [1873]
Summary
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 4 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8724 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 January [1873]
Summary
Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.
Asks for a Drosophyllum.
Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,
Greg’s Enigmas,
and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 243–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8726 |
To Asa Gray 8 January 1873
Summary
Has received, through AG, a letter on Dionaea [from W. M. Canby] which has greatly interested him. CD asks AG to question his correspondent on whether it catches large or small insects.
Mary Treat will observe Drosera filiformis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 January 1873
Summary
Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.
Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.
Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.
Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 248–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8729 |
To M. D. Conway 11 January [1873]
Summary
Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].
Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Date: | 11 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8730 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
To A. R. Wallace 13 January [1873]
Summary
Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 13 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8735 |
To James Paget 18 January [1873]
Summary
JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8740 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1873]
Summary
The evidence of tameness of Alpine butterflies [see 8672] seems good and the fact is surprising to CD for they can hardly have acquired this in their short life-time.
The question whether butterflies are attracted to bright colours independently of the supposed presence of nectar is still unanswered.
CD has great difficulty in believing that any temporary condition of parents can affect the offspring.
Pangenesis is much reviled, but CD must still look at generation from this point of view, which makes him averse to believing that an emotion has any effect on the offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8741 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January 1873
Summary
On EH’s Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 52/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8743 |
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 |
letter | (25) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Paget, James | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Baldwin, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Paget, James | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |