To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860–82?] |
| Classmark: | Glenbow Museum |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13875 |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860–82?] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13876 |
To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860 or later] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 14 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To a bookseller 9 September [1860]
Summary
Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (14 December 2013, lot 403) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2908F |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860–82?] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3052F |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Unidentified | (8) |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … on board HMS Bulldog on its north Atlantic voyage of 1860, which was intended to survey the …
- … on the Presence of Animal Life at Vast Depths in the Sea (1860), which reflected his growing …
- … Bancroft Library. Darwin’s letters to Wallich: 12 Dec. [1860], DCP-LETT-3020; 18 April [1869], DCP …
