Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Summary
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
From a lady [before 17 July 1875]
Summary
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 July 1875] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 July 1875, p. 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070F |
To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To Librarian 27 October [1846 or 1848?]
Summary
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Librarian |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1846 or 1848] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1013 |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
| Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (26 February 1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To ? 1 November [1877–9]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr. Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
| Author: | Nemo |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
To ? [1876?]
Summary
Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1876 or later?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 21 March 1876
Summary
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423F |
To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 6 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (24 and 25 November 1981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537 |
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