To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To ? 16 August [1854–8]
Summary
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 16 Aug [1854-8] |
Classmark: | DAR 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1578A |
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Dec 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860 or later] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1860] |
Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To a bookseller 9 September [1860]
Summary
Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (14 December 2013, lot 403) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2908F |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1860–82?] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3052F |
To William Samuel Symonds 26 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3099 |
To ? 7 May [1861–8?]
Summary
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 May [1861-8] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3141 |
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
To a member of Downing College, Cambridge [19 January 1837]
Summary
Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [19 Jan 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 142v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-342 |
To ? 21 August [1862]
Summary
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693F |
To Pickard & Stoneman 1 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3839 |
To an editor 24 March [1863?]
Summary
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863?] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4058 |
To [unidentified] 12 September [1838]
Summary
Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Sept [1838] |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-427 |
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