From Lionel Ashburner 25 June 1871
Author: | Lionel Robert (Lionel) Ashburner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10551 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12385 |
To Maria [1871–82]
Summary
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12386 |
From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12387 |
From A child of God [after 24 February 1871?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770 |
From J. W. Abernethy [after 18 February 1871]
Summary
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
Author: | Julian Willis Abernethy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 18 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13771 |
To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To Miss Fenwick 8 February [1871–82]
Summary
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miss Fenwick |
Date: | 8 Feb [1871-82] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13806 |
From Caroline Shuttleworth 27 November [1871–80?]
Summary
Reports peculiar behaviour in a fantail pigeon, which persistently courted a ginger-beer bottle.
Author: | Caroline Jemima (Caroline) Shuttleworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov [1871-80] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13840 |
From D. Thomas [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.
Author: | D. Thomas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13849 |
From R. H. Wedgwood [1871–82]
Summary
An instance of long memory in a horse.
Author: | Rowland Henry Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | Romanes 1882a, p. 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855A |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
From W. D. Fox 2[0–9?] October [1871 or 1873?]
Summary
Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4639F |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 24 February [1871]
Summary
Would be pleased if CD called.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5926 |
To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To A. B. Buckley 18 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508 |
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