To Francis Galton 23 January [1872]
Summary
His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.
Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8173 |
To Francis Galton 29 March [1872]
Summary
Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.
Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 29 Mar [1872] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8258 |
To Francis Galton 21 April [1872]
Summary
Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 21 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8296 |
To Francis Galton 27 May [1872]
Summary
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 27 May [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8354 |
To Francis Galton 1 August [1872]
Summary
George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 1 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8442 |
To Francis Galton 9 August [1872]
Summary
Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Union College, Schaffer Library, Special Collections and Archives (Mullen Collection, SCA-1181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8461 |
To Francis Galton 12 August [1872]
Summary
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 12 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | The Whiting family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464F |
To Francis Galton 8 November [1872]
Summary
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8608 |
To Francis Galton 30 December [1872]
Summary
F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 30 Dec [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8697 |
To Francis Galton 4 January [1873]
Summary
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 4 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8724 |
letter | (50) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Butler, H. M. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (50) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Butler, H. M. | (1) |