From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
To John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
To Robert Chambers 11 September 1847
Summary
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1847 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1119 |
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 |
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From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 21 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4722 |
To John Higgins 11 December [1847]
Summary
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1138 |
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- … 11. My dear Sir I beg to thank you for your letter of the 8 th , informing me that you would pay £ 198 ’ 12 . 3 to my account at M r Robarts & enclosing your account. — I am very glad to hear that all is going on prosperously; but I am sorry for the poor old man’s death. I thank you sincerely for your kind expressions about my Father— pray believe me— my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin …
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
To H. H. Vivian 11 May [1870]
Summary
Thanks for HHV’s interest in the census [CD’s plan to add questions on consanguineous marriage to the census] on which CD hopes to persuade Sir J. Lubbock to speak.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 12: A0444 S12450012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7183 |
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- … 11— Dear M r Vivian I feel greatly obliged to you for the kind interest which you have shewn on the subject of the census, which interests me greatly. I have no doubt that your personal communication with Mr Bruce will have far more influence than any memorial or any thing that I c d do. With my sincere thanks I beg leave to remain | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin …
From John Richardson 17 July 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s questions about the geographical distribution of freshwater fishes.
| Author: | John Richardson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 285 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1929 |
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
Partington, Eliza (1807–72)
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- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Post Office directory of Birmingham : Post Office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and part of Staffordshire. Kelly’s directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. London: W. Kelly; Kelly & Co. 1845–1928. 11 Darwin, C. R. …
[Francis Thornhill Baring] 11 October 1837
Summary
Their Lordships communicate their entire approval of the proposal in CD’s letter of 20 September 1837. [See 378a.]
| Author: | Francis Thornhill Baring, Lord Northbrook |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-381A |
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- … Darwin Esq r . | 36 G t . Marlborough S t . Sir Having laid before the Lords &c your Letter of 20 th . ult o . & the accompanying Plan for publishing your Zoological Work, I have received their Lordships Commands to communicate to you their entire approval of the proposals contained therein, & to state that my Lords will be glad to hear that you are proceeding in the Work in the manner therein suggested. 11 th Oct r . …
To Albert Günther 11 May [1872]
Summary
Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].
Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?
Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 11 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library Günther 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8316 |
From E. B. Tylor 11 November 1876
Summary
Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10667 |
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- … 11. 76 Dear M r Darwin I think I mentioned to you some while since that I was trying to write for Macmillan an “Elementary Lessons in Anthropology. ” This attempt has been a cause of great trouble and waste of labour to me, inasmuch as though I can write with something like satisfaction on questions of Culture, Language &c. …
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
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