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 |
From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
Letter of recommendation for Syms Covington 29 May 1839
Summary
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-514 |
To ? 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5170 |
To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
To Ladies 24 February [1862–9]
Summary
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Feb [1862-9] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418F |
To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
To ? [2 June? 1840]
Summary
Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [2 June? 1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570F |
To ? [after June 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
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