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 ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
To ? 23 June 1869
Summary
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6795 |
To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
| Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Unidentified | (8) |
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
Summary
< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
Matches: 2 hits
- … portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal Society’s Darwin …
- … originator of image Allan Wyon, interpreted by an unidentified ceramicist date …
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
- … one of Darwin. However, in a letter to Wallich of 18 April 1869, Darwin declined to come to his …
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … in 2005. Darwin’s solicitude to help Wallich in 1869 reflected the fact that they had …
- … letters to Wallich: 12 Dec. [1860], DCP-LETT-3020; 18 April [1869], DCP-LETT-6701; 24 February [1872 …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 2 hits
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
- … paper was read before the Linnean Society on 4 February 1869, but remained unpublished until it …
