To Frederick Allen’s agent [October 1873]
Summary
Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Agent for Mr Allen |
Date: | [Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9079 |
To Karl Marx 1 October 1873
Summary
Thanks KM for gift of his "great work on Capital" [2d German ed. of Das Kapital]. Wishes he understood more of "the deep & important subject of political Economy".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Heinrich (Karl) Marx |
Date: | 1 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers D. 1013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9080 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 1 October [1873]
Summary
Hears from Frank [Darwin] that Drosera behaves perversely. Suggests that motor influence may move longitudinally away from the excited glands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9081 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 October [1873]
Summary
CD thinks GHD’s letter is an excellent clarification [of CD’s conjectural view on the elimination of useless parts in species], but does not want to publish it as his [CD’s] own. Asks GHD to think carefully before he publishes it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9085 |
To Edward Frankland 7 October [1873]
Summary
Requests a piece of the most sensitive litmus paper in order to test the secretions of minute hairs of plants which catch minute flies. [See 9098.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 7 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9090A |
To Alexander Bain 9 October 1873
Summary
Thanks AB for his review of Expression [May 1873, in The senses and the intellect, 3d ed. (1874), pp. 697–714]. Admits vagueness of some points. Has never grasped AB’s principle of spontaneity. But, as they look at everything so differently, it is not likely that they should agree closely.
A recent review by T. S. Baynes, [Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "magnificently contemptuous" toward CD and many others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Bain |
Date: | 9 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9092 |
To W. H. Leggett 10 October [1873]
Summary
Has not seen number of Botanical Bulletin with account of Apocynum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
Date: | 10 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9093 |
To Francis Darwin 10 October 1873
Summary
Asks for details about microscope parts.
Wants FD to ask Hooker for species of Desmodium; CD believes he has found new movements.
Also ask whether Hooker has Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9095 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
To Edward Frankland 13 October 1873
Summary
Finds the negative information sent by EF of great interest [see 9094].
More on his own experiments and the perplexing results when using the sensitive litmus paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 13 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096A |
To Horace Darwin [15 October 1873]
Summary
Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [15 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 258: 548a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096F |
To J. D. Hooker 18 October [1873]
Summary
Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9100 |
To Edward Frankland 18 October [1873]
Summary
Apologises for his ignorance in interpreting the results secured in his testing with blue litmus paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9100A |
To A. G. Dew-Smith 19 October [1873]
Summary
Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
Date: | 19 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9101 |
To John Downing 20 October [1873]
Summary
Gratified that a man of JD’s experience agrees with him.
Would enjoy seeing him at Down but it could only be for a half-hour’s talk at most, because of his health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Downing |
Date: | 20 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 418 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9104 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1873]
Summary
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1:14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9105 |
To Francis Darwin 22 October 1873
Summary
Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9106 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 20 October 1873?]
Summary
Lists plants in which he is interested, including Neptunia and Mimosa species.
Do any strictly tropical plants have glaucous leaves?
Asks for observations on irritable plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1873?] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9107 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1873]
Summary
Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.
Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.
No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.
Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.
Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 282–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9108 |
To Francis Darwin 23 October [1873]
Summary
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9110 |
letter | (30) |
Agent for Mr Allen | (1) |
Bain, Alexander (b) | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Dew-Smith, A. G. | (1) |
Downing, John | (2) |
Eimer, Theodor | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Kovalevsky, A. O. | (1) |
Leggett, W. H. | (1) |
Marx, Karl | (1) |
Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Frankland, Edward | (3) |