To ? 18 July 1881
Summary
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13248 |
To Hugo de Vries [18 October 1881]
Summary
Delighted to hear that HdeV intends working on the causes of variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13415F |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]
Summary
On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.
"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1059 |
To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait [30 March 1882]
Summary
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | [30 Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13749 |
To A. R. Wallace [2 September 1872]
Summary
Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [2 Sept 1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8504 |
From George Grey 10 May 1846
Summary
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
| Author: | George Grey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 121c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-979 |
To [William Whitaker?] 16 March 1880
Summary
Thanks for sending article on inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whitaker |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1880 |
| 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-12537 |
To A. D. Kindermann [27 March 1871]
Summary
Wants permission to have some of AK’s photographs copied for Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolph Diedrich Kindermann |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7629 |
To ? 2 May [1869 or later]
Summary
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 May [1869-82] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866A |
To John Lort Stokes [November–December 1845]
Summary
Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | [Nov–Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 121b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-940 |
From Fritz Müller 15 June 1869
Summary
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B115; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 215/175) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6783 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
From Alphons Engelhardt 15 April [1881?]
Summary
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.
| Author: | Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1881?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13161 |
To Hugo de Vries [December 1881?]
Summary
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [Dec 1881?] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13523F |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 22 April 1876
Summary
Discussing a reprint of South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466G |
From C. G. Semper 6 December 1878
Summary
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11776 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 March 1880
Summary
[Letter written as a postscript to 11406.] CD has reread his letter of 7 Mar 1878 about the value of James Torbitt’s work on the potato disease and has nothing to withdraw. Emphasises Torbitt’s need for immediate financial help.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (MS 489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12512 |
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Survival of the fittest in Commentary
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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