DCP-LETT-941
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-941 |
From Smith, Elder & Co. 12 September 1837
Summary
Suggestions are presented respecting CD’s proposed publication of his zoological work in accordance with the Government requirement.
| Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377A |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 3 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 December [1881]
Summary
Paperwork relating to 6 Queen Anne Street, London.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13548F |
To Salt & Son 26 November [1850]
Summary
Inquires about financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Salt & Sons |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1372 |
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 William Herbert [c. 1 April 1839]
Summary
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Date: | [c. 1 Apr 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-502 |
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
From Edward Parfitt 31 October 1881
Summary
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.
| Author: | Edward Parfitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13445 |
To John Lubbock 6 June [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for a meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 6 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3177 |
From John Lubbock 12 February 1867
Summary
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5400 |
From A. W. Malm 21 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for Origin, 6th ed.
| Author: | August Wilhelm Malm |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11285 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 7 [April 1874]
Summary
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 [Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 321 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9395 |
To Ernst Krause 15 September 1879
Summary
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36194) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12231 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 September 1879 and n. 7. Edmond Barbier . CD had sent a copy of the proof-sheets of Erasmus Darwin to the publisher Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald (see letter to C. -F. Reinwald, 11 September 1879) . See letter from Ernst Krause, 1 September 1879 and n. 4. William Sweetland Dallas . The Autotype Company produced the frontispiece of Erasmus Darwin (see letter from R. …
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 My dear M r . Darwin Many thanks for your very kind letter. I am delighted with your praise, & am especially glad that you like the last Chapter about which I was a little afraid. The Morning Advertiser devoted a leading article the other morning to abusing me for writing the book & the Times for reviewing it favourably. You do not mention how you are. I hope the ice Continues to do you good. Ever dear M r Darwin | Yours affec | John Lubbock C …
From J. S. Henslow 2 November 1840
Summary
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1840 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-579 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Darwin Octob r 1841—’. The Royal Agricultural Society of England had established a museum to which members were asked to send ‘such specimens as afford a fair average of their peculiar respective districts’. Henslow, Le Couteur, and John Morton were appointed to decide on the plans for the presentation and exhibition of the specimens (Report of the Council at the General Meeting, 12 …
From Andrew Murray 3 May 1860
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments on his review of the Origin. Regrets lack of space often causes him to do injustice to CD and to himself. Agrees to alter some of his statements
and offers some evidence for his opinions on plant hybridising.
Sends references to papers mentioning cave insects. Paussi are not blind, as CD thinks, though some other insects that live in ants’ nests are. Each country over the world has its peculiar species of Paussi, though they all live in ants’ nests. "Physical condition I say – Natural Selection you say".
| Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 153–153a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2780 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Benson, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
