To William Bowman 16 May [1869–81]
Summary
"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 May [1869-81] |
Classmark: | George Houle Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 61, March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13781 |
To Adolph Reuter 24 July [1869]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 24 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13837 |
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 Richard Kippist 31 January [1869?]
Summary
"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 31 Jan [1869?] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (pasted in Mueller 1858–82, vol. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426A |
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 3 April [1869]
Summary
Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.
Interested in galls
and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 3 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5482 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 [January] 1869
Summary
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 [Jan] 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5729 |
To George Howard Darwin 6 February [1869]
Summary
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5843 |
To Charles Lyell [3 November 1869]
Summary
Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5974 |
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 |
From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
Summary
Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6260 |
To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869]
Summary
Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Scientific Opinion |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6442 |
From John Lubbock [after 5 August 1869]
Summary
Visiting arrangements.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Aug 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 May 1869]
Summary
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 May 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519F |
From E. A. Darwin [after 21 April 1869]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Apr 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6521 |
From George Henslow [after 22 February 1869]
Summary
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6522 |
From James Paget [1869]
Summary
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1869] |
Classmark: | Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6533 |
From Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams to Henrietta Emma Darwin [after 14 October 1869]
Summary
Describes expression of her baby when crying.
Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [after 14 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6535 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 [November 1869 or later]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Nov 1869 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6539 |
To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
From Vladimir Onofrievich Kovalevsky [January–March 1869]
Summary
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan–Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541 |
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