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 ? 23 January [1875–82]
Summary
Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1875-81] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9828G |
To Linnean Society 1 January [1875]
Summary
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10004 |
To Asa Gray 29 January [1875]
Summary
Asks AG to forward [unspecified] enclosure to Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13813 |
To F. J. Cohn 1 January 1875
Summary
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 1 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795A |
To Daniel Oliver 1 January [1875]
Summary
Returning the plants DO had sent him from Kew
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795F |
To Octavius March [1875]
Summary
His opinion of the couvade.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavius March |
Date: | [1875] |
Classmark: | March 1883, p. 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795H |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 363–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9798 |
To F. B. Goodacre 5 January 1875
Summary
CD would be pleased to have FBG’s essay dedicated to him but fears that he will be unable to give any assistance towards FBG’s ‘excellent scheme’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Burges Goodacre |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Dr John Goodacre (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9801 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 5 January 1875
Summary
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9802 |
To Daniel Oliver 6 January [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9803 |
To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January [1875]
Summary
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 367–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9809 |
To Ernst Haeckel 11 January [1875]
Summary
Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 11 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9811 |
To St G. J. Mivart 12 January 1875
Summary
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 12 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9812 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 12 January 1875]
Summary
CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 12 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9813 |
To G. J. Romanes 13 January [1875]
Summary
Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 13 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.461) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814 |
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
To T. H. Huxley 14 January 1875
Summary
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9817 |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Linnean Society | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Linnean Society | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |