To ? [1872 or later?]
Summary
Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1872 or later?] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8135F |
To ? 8 January [1872]
Summary
Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 8 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.405) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8150 |
To ? [16 February – 21 March 1872]
Summary
"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | Famous Notables (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8211F |
To ? 23 March [1872–4]
Summary
CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Mar [1872-4] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8250 |
To ? 21 April 1872
Summary
[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8297 |
To ? 22 May 1872
Summary
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8347 |
To ? 27 May 1872
Summary
Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 May 1872 |
Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8355 |
To ? 13 June [1872–4]
Summary
Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Brandes Autographs (dealers) (January 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8379F |
To ? 10 July [1872–3]
Summary
Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 July [1872-3] |
Classmark: | Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404F |
To ? 12 July [1872–4]
Summary
Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 July [1872-4] |
Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406F |
To ? 30 July [1872–4]
Summary
Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 July [1872-4] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8438 |
To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
To ? 9 August [1872–4]
Summary
Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections (Autograph Collection (Bremer–Drew), Box 3, Folder 309) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460F |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660F |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for gift of a book, and offers to send copy of Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (3 November 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660H |
To ? 9 December 1872
Summary
Thanks an unidentifiable natural history society for electing him an honorary member.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Galerie Frédéric Castaing (dealer) (November 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8665F |
To ? 15 February [1872–4]
Summary
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 15 Feb [1872-4] |
Classmark: | University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9292 |
To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 10 Nov [1872-4] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13774 |
To W. E. Darwin 23 [February 1872 – October 1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13800 |
To W. W. Baxter 16 July [1872?]
Summary
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 16 July [1872?] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7280 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Cooke, R. F. | (16) |
John Murray | (16) |
Unidentified | (16) |
Carus, J. V. | (9) |