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 [‘Julian’] [c. 1864]
Summary
[No informatiion about content.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julian |
Date: | [c. 1864] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4375F |
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 the Lords of the Admiralty [2–4 July 1866]
Summary
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | [2–4 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5142 |
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 Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
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 |
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
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