To ? 7 December [1855–7?]
Summary
Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Dec [1855-7] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 93 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867A |
To ? [1842–82]
Summary
Will be glad to see recipient and Mr Morris at Down the following day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1842–82] |
Classmark: | eBay (April 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867G |
To ? 31 December [1852–3]
Summary
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Dec [1852-3] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13872 |
To ? 23 January [1843–6 or 1856–69]
Summary
Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13873 |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | Glenbow Museum |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13875 |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13876 |
To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
To ? 20 June [1861–8]
Summary
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 June [1861-8] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13879 |
To ? 24 August [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Aug [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13880 |
To ? 25 November [1861–8]
Summary
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Nov [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881 |
To ? 31 December [1861–8]
Summary
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Dec [1861-8] |
Classmark: | J. David Archibald (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881A |
To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
To ? 31 [January 1875–82]
Summary
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Jan [1875-82] |
Classmark: | Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889A |
To ? 3 February [1875–82?]
Summary
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Feb [1875-82] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889B |
To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1839–82] |
Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
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