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 E. H. Giglioli 6 February [1873]
Summary
Thanks his Italian colleague for articles on the skull of a chimpanzee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Enrico Hillyer Giglioli |
Date: | 6 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | Andrusier Autographs (dealer) (22 November 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8201A |
To Henry Willett 26 March [1873]
Summary
CD subscribes an additional £10.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Willett |
Date: | 26 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8251 |
To E. R. Lankester 15 April [1873]
Summary
Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.
Includes extract from Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
Date: | 15 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8287 |
To H. C. F. Jenkin 30 April [1873]
Summary
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin |
Date: | 30 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8304 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] 11 May [1873]
Summary
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 11 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Herter Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8319 |
To J. J. Weir 18 September [1873]
Summary
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8524 |
To Charles Lyell [9 April 1873]
Summary
Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8552F |
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 Charles Lyell [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]
Summary
Arranges a visit to CL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715 |
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 |
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Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |
Frankland, Edward | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (283) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |