To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13774 |
From M. I. Snow 29 [November 1872 or later]
Summary
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
| Author: | Maria Isabella Snow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Nov 1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13842 |
To George King November 1872
Summary
Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8589 |
To Amy Ruck [1 November 1872]
Summary
Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Nov 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8590 |
To S. H. Haliburton 1 November [1872]
Summary
Sends a copy of Expression
and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8591 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 2 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].
Sends a copy of Expression.
His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]
so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8593 |
From W. E. Darwin [3 November 1872]
Summary
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1872] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8593F |
From L. H. Jeitteles 3 November 1872
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
| Author: | Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8594 |
From S. H. Haliburton 3 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Expression.
Reminiscences of their youth.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8595 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1872]
Summary
Tells Hooker to do as he pleases about proposing John Scott.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence Vol. 156, Indian letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1087) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8595F |
From J. S. Craig 4 November 1872
Summary
A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.
| Author: | John Smith Craig |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8596 |
From M. T. Masters 4 November 1872
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8597 |
From Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie 4 November 1872
Summary
Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].
| Author: | Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8599 |
From W. W. Reade 5 November 1872
Summary
Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8600 |
To S. H. Haliburton 6 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks SH for news of her family. Would like her to visit Down in the spring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8601 |
From John Murray 6 November [1872]
Summary
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8602 |
From Henry Maudsley 6 November 1872
Summary
Thanks for Expression.
| Author: | Henry Maudsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8603 |
From Henry Holland 6 November [1872]
Summary
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8604 |
To L. H. Jeitteles 7 November 1872
Summary
Thanks LHJ for a memoir [about remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives (Bookfellow Foundation Scrapbooks, p.47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8605 |
To J. S. Craig 7 November 1872
Summary
Cannot accept honour of nomination as Lord Rector [of Aberdeen University].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Smith Craig |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | University of Aberdeen Library, Special Collections (MS 2289) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8606 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (73) |
| Murray, John (b) | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (4) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (4) |
