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To ?   12 November 1874

Summary

Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  12 Nov 1874
Classmark:  Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9717F

To Williams & Norgate   [November 1874 – May 1880]

Summary

Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Williams & Norgate
Date:  [Nov 1874 – May 1880]
Classmark:  Ms Caroline Waid (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11028F

To Francis Galton   [November 1874 – April 1882]

Summary

Invites FG to visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Classmark:  The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13811

To J. W. Spengel   27 November [1874]

Summary

Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Wilhelm Spengel
Date:  27 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8650F

To John Fiske   3 November [1874]

Summary

Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Fiske
Date:  3 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9706

To John Murray   5 November [1874]

Summary

Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.

CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  5 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9710

To G. H. Darwin   5 November [1874]

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Summary

Mainly family news.

Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  5 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9712

To D. Appleton & Co.   5 November 1874

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Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  D. Appleton & Co
Date:  5 Nov 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C63–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9713

To W. J. Beal   9 November 1874

Summary

Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William James Beal
Date:  9 Nov 1874
Classmark:  Sarah Baker Topper (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9713F

To J. F. McLennan   10 November [1874]

Summary

Will send Alexis Giraud-Teulon’s book [Origines de la famille (1874)], which he has received but not read, if JFM cares to read it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Ferguson McLennan
Date:  10 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 44 no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9715

To W. G. Kemp   11 November [1874]

Summary

Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Walter Gustav Kemp
Date:  11 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9716F

To Down School Board   16 November 1874

Summary

Must resign because of his health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Down School Board
Date:  16 Nov 1874
Classmark:  Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9720

To F. T. Köppen   18 November 1874

Summary

Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
Date:  18 Nov 1874
Classmark:  Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 3, 3 r)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9722

To G. H. Darwin   18 November [1874]

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Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  18 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9724

To Ludwig Noiré   19 November [1874]

Summary

CD thanks LN for his book [Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes], which he hopes to read soon, but his poor German hampers him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ludwig Noiré
Date:  19 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170), Professor John C. Gray (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9724G

To J. V. Carus   20 November [1874]

Summary

Thanks JVC for a correction to 2d English edition of Descent, which is now finished. 1350 copies were sold at Murray’s sale.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  20 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 125–126)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9725

To George King   20 November 1874

Summary

Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George King
Date:  20 Nov 1874
Classmark:  Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 13 March 2002
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9726

To J. D. Hooker   [17 November 1874]

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Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [17 Nov 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 342
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9728

To R. B. Sharpe   24 November [1874]

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Testimonial stating CD’s opinion of RBS’s fitness for a higher post at the British Museum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:  24 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9731

To Leonard Darwin   25 November 1874

Summary

LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.

CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".

Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leonard Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1874
Classmark:  DAR 153: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9733
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