To G. H. Darwin 1 August [1874]
Summary
GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580 |
To G. E. Paget 1 August 1874
Summary
Apologises for delay, but is away from home; has sent telegraph.
Francis Darwin is abroad on his honeymoon and unable to respond to GEP’s offer of a medical position.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Edward Paget |
Date: | 1 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Ms Add. 10379) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580F |
To W. D. Whitney 5 August 1874
Summary
Praises WDW’s essay on language [North Am. Rev. 119 (1874): 61–88] which argues against Max Müller’s views and is a good defence against an attack made in Quarterly Review on CD’s short discussion of language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555) Box 21, folder 556 1874 Aug 1–12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9583 |
To J. T. Knowles 5 August 1874
Summary
CD understands JTK’s reasons [for not republishing W. D. Whitney’s article]. Cannot undertake to write anything himself; he needs rest and is unwilling to enter into controversy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Thomas Knowles |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9584 |
To G. H. Darwin [5 or 6 August 1874]
Summary
Has no objection to sending GHD’s letter as it is. The only accusation it seems necessary to rebut is about licentiousness. Regrets this is not made more prominent.
Gives some suggestions for GHD’s reply to Mivart’s attack.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [5 or 6] Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 28, 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9588 |
To M. T. Masters 7 August [1874]
Summary
Discusses flower structures of the hop.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9593 |
To Quarterly Review 7 August 1874
Summary
[Drafts by CD of the letter sent by George Darwin]. Responds to charges made in a review article [by St G. J. Mivart]. [See 9598. The final letter was printed in Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Quarterly Review |
Date: | 7 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 118–119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9594 |
To G. H. Darwin [8 August 1874]
Summary
Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [8 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9596 |
To John Tyndall 11 August [1874]
Summary
CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].
Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 11 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9597 |
To John Murray 11 August 1874
Summary
Asks JM, as a favour, to use his influence with the Editor of Quarterly Review to print George Darwin’s answer to the charge made by the author of "Primitive man" [St George Mivart] that GD approved "of the encouragement of vice to check population".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 11 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 48–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9598 |
To John Tyndall 12 August [1874]
Summary
Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 12 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9599 |
To D. T. Gardner [c. 27 August 1874]
Summary
States his indebtedness to and admiration for Humboldt and his work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel T. Gardner |
Date: | [c. 27 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | New York Times, 15 September 1874 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9601 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 August 1874
Summary
It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.
Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 332–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9604 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 August [1874]
Summary
Reports difficulties in experiments on digestion of fibro-cartilage. Asks about JSBS’s experiments with artificial digestive fluids.
JSBS must read Hooker’s address at Belfast [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 103–16] to see what a magnificent digester Nepenthes is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25); DAR 147: 415 (copy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9605 |
To Edward Nicholson 26 August [1874]
Summary
Thanks EN for his book [Indian snakes, 2d ed. (1874)]. CD is pleased that it calls attention to gradation in the character of snake poison.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Nicholson |
Date: | 26 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9607 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.
CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".
Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9613 |
To W. C. Marshall [after 30 August 1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | [after 30 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 126v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9614 |
To Edward Frankland 31 August 1874
Summary
Utricularia catch freshwater Crustaceans, which cannot be digested and rot in the bladders. CD is interested to identify any substance produced in the putrefaction before it is resolved into gases and salts of ammonia. He has reason to believe that the plant absorbs such products.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 31 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9614A |
To G. H. Darwin [20? August 1874]
Summary
Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [20? Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9711 |
letter | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |