To ? [1874–5?]
Summary
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9217 |
To ? 1 January 1874
Summary
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9222 |
To ? 3 January 1874
Summary
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9224 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
To T. L. Brunton [1874–5?]
Summary
Comments on behaviour of babies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1874–5?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9215 |
To Fritz Müller 1 January 1874
Summary
Thanks for two pamphlets.
Sends Thomas Belt’s [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], "the best Nat. Hist. book of travels ever published".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9223 |
To James Crichton-Browne 5 January 1874
Summary
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9227 |
To William Waring 6 January 1874
Summary
CD has previously received information on colours of greyhounds. Now asks whether breeders rear all puppies, and, if not, do they selectively rear more males or females?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 6 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9228 |
To B. J. Sulivan 6 January [1874]
Summary
Thanks BJS for the missionary pamphlet and his good account of the Fuegians.
Is under the care of Andrew Clark, and feels "very old & helpless".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 6 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9229 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January 1874
Summary
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9231 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 8 January 1874
Summary
Pleased they will publish a new edition of Coral reefs, and he will soon consider any addenda and write a short preface.
Will return the wood-blocks of Journal of Researches the following week.
Could his copy of Coral Reefs please be returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 8 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9233F |
To Horace Darwin 9 January [1874]
Summary
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9234 |
To Andrew Clark 10 January [1874]
Summary
Invites AC to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.436) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236 |
To William Waring 12 January [1874]
Summary
CD requests WW to ask a large breeder of greyhounds whether the increase in litters requires that some puppies be destroyed. If so, is it sufficient to destroy merely the small and weak? Would this result in more males or females being destroyed?
CD once used the Field to tabulate ratios of female to male births in greyhounds (110: 100).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Waring |
Date: | 12 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (CKS-U1906/Z/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9238 |
To T. N. Staley 13 January [1874]
Summary
Has read TNS’s article ["On the geography and recent volcanic eruption of the Sandwich Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 38 (1868): 361–9].
Asks for information on decline in population and infanticide in the Sandwich Islands. Seeks corroboration of A. Bishop’s reports.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
Date: | 13 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | The Hawaiian Historical Society (MS B St1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9239 |
To Charles Lyell [13 January 1874]
Summary
The coral-reef book has been invaluable [J. D. Dana, Corals and coral islands (1872); used by CD in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)].
Thanks for Saturday Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [13 Jan 1874] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9240 |
To C. L. Denison 14 January 1874
Summary
Seeks information on the number of Pitcairn islanders and the effect on their fertility of the transfer to Norfolk Island.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Date: | 14 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9241 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
To C. L. Denison 19 January [1874]
Summary
Finds from the Colonial Office that a census [of the Pitcairn Islands?] is expected soon, from which he will get the information he desires. [See 9241 and 9246.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Lucy Denison |
Date: | 19 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 77, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9249F |
To superintendent of a lunatic asylum 20 January 1874
Summary
Would like recipient to ask inmates whether they are offspring of cousin marriages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Superintendent of a lunatic asylum |
Date: | 20 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9251F |
letter | (26) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Denison, C. L. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Waring, William (b) | (2) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Denison, C. L. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Waring, William (b) | (2) |