To R. F. Cooke 17 November 1871
Summary
Has decided that 1000 copies of Descent should be printed. Will make no alterations. "If it goes on selling it will shew that it is worth a thorough revision."
The U. S. sale of Descent (10000 copies) is larger than in England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 17 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 236–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8074 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
To J. V. Carus 18 April [1867]
Summary
Reassures JVC [who had received the impression that CD would prefer Carl Vogt as translator of Variation].
CD surprised at receipt of an application for a Russian translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 58–59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5506 |
To C. G. Semper [after 6 December 1878]
Summary
Gives CGS permission to use his letters in any way he thinks fit.
Discusses the direct effect of external conditions as an agent of change in organisms; has encountered many cases since the publication of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | [after 6 Dec 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 120v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11777 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 9 February 1872
Summary
Comments on FH’s paper ["Verbreitungsmittel der Compositenfrüchte", Bot. Ztg. 30 (1872): 1–14].
Discusses function of mucus filaments on seeds of Compositae and other plants.
Comments on Eugen Askenasy’s publication [Beiträge zur Kritik der Darwin’schen Lehre (1872)].
Comments on evolutionary views of Carl Nägeli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 9 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8206 |
To Ernst Haeckel 23 June [1870]
Summary
Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].
Mentions his own book [Descent].
Visit by Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 23 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7241 |
From R. F. Cooke 26 April 1871
Summary
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 396 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7719 |
From R. F. Cooke 27 August 1875
Summary
The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?
Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 466 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10135 |
To W. C. Tait 17 July [1869]
Summary
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 17 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6833 |
To Emil Lehmann 18 October [1872]
Summary
CD would have been honoured to have EL translate forthcoming work [Expression], but J. V. Carus is already half way through this task.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Lehmann |
Date: | 18 Oct [1872] |
Classmark: | James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8564A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter (see n. 2, below). Lehmann’s letter has not been found, but a note on the verso of the letter, written by his wife, Amalie Lehmann , explains that he had offered to translate Expression into German. Julius Victor Carus’s translation (Carus trans. 1872b) was probably published in December 1872 ( letter to J. V. Carus, 12 …
To J. D. Hooker 14 July 1868
Summary
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6276 |
To R. F. Cooke 24 November 1877
Summary
Asks exact number of copies of recent printing of Origin.
Approves stereotyping Orchids,
but fears he cannot approve of stereotyping Cross and self-fertilisation and Forms of flowers. It is too soon for the latter, and he is too busy to correct the former.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 24 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 300–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11252 |
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- … letters from R. F. Cooke, 12 October 1877 and 23 November 1877 ; Cooke’s letter of two or three weeks ago saying that he intended to print 1000 copies of Origin has not been found, nor has CD’s letter to Cooke saying he had no corrections. See letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 November 1877 . For the correction, see the letter from J. V. Carus, …
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
To D. Appleton & Co. 5 November 1874
Summary
Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | D. Appleton & Co |
Date: | 5 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9713 |
From J. V. Carus 14 July 1872
Summary
Asks whether he can start soon on translating Expression.
Thinks CD has gone a little too far on St G. J. Mivart’s objection, which he thinks did very little harm in Germany.
JVC’s history of zoology is finished [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8409 |
To William Turner 28 March [1871]
Summary
Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.
At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7632 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to George Busk, 12 March [1871] and n. 3. In his letter to H. E. Darwin of 20 March 1871 , CD mentioned that corrections to the second printing of Descent cost £128. CD had also received corrections from his German translator Julius Victor Carus , most of which appeared in the third printing (see letter from J. V. …
To F. C. Donders 15 July 1874
Summary
Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,
and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.
Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 15 July 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9547 |
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Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
John Murray | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |