To Francis Galton 8 November [1872]
Summary
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8608 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 130–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8609 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 133–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8610 |
From A. J. Cupples to Emma Darwin 8 November [1872]
Summary
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
| Author: | Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8611 |
From S. H. Haliburton 8 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8612 |
To W. W. Baxter? 8 November [1872–4]
Summary
Orders enema.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8613 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Cupples, A. J. | (1) |
| Douglas, A. J. | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Cupples, A. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Douglas, A. J. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Williams, S. H. | (1) |
