From J. F. McLennan 30 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for reference [to Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880)].
Irate against L. H. Morgan.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12877 |
To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880]
Summary
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12945 |
From J. M. Herbert 28 December 1880
Summary
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12884 |
To W. H. Flower [after 16 February 1880]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [after 16 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 19v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12505 |
To G. H. Darwin 29 January [1880]
Summary
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12441 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … s wife. McLennan died in 1881; a collection of his writings on the origin of patriarchal family structures was published posthumously ( McLennan 1885 ). CD had been asked to find employment for Alfred Russel Wallace in 1879 (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter from A. B. Buckley, 16 December 1879 ). Francis Darwin . …
From B. J. Sulivan 2 January [1880]
Summary
Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11818 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … wife, Mary Ann Bridges , and daughter, Mary Ann Varder Bridges ( ODNB ). The Allen Gardiner was a two-masted vessel owned by the South American Missionary Society ( Macdonald 1929 ); it was named after the missionary Allen Francis Gardiner . Arthur Mellersh and Henrietta Alice Mellersh . Sulivan borrowed the copy of Erasmus Darwin …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| McLennan, J. F. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
