To Francis Darwin 5 December [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7021 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Summary
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From E. A. Darwin 21 [December 1870]
Summary
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 [Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7067 |
From Robert Francis Cooke 5 December 1870
Summary
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387 |
To P. L. Sclater 5 December 1870
Summary
Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | Dr W. N. Livingstone (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387F |
To Asa Gray 7 December 1870
Summary
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7388 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 12 December [1870]
Summary
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7389 |
From Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet 15 December 1870
Summary
CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
| Author: | Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7390 |
From T. H. Farrer 15 December 1870
Summary
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7391 |
To William Ogle 17 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7394 |
From B. J. Sulivan 17 December 1870
Summary
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7395 |
From Edouard van Beneden 17 December 1870
Summary
CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.
| Author: | Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7396 |
From Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck 19 December 1870
Summary
Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.
| Author: | Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7398 |
From W. W. Reade 20 December 1870
Summary
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7399 |
To B. J. Sulivan 20 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 20 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7400 |
To Charles Lyell 25 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].
Is correcting proofs [of Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7401 |
To P. L. Sclater 26 December [1870]
Summary
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402 |
To ? 28 December [1870]
Summary
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402F |
To P. L. Sclater 29 December [1870]
Summary
CD is obliged for PLS’s correction [of Descent proofs]. Will add a caption to the woodcut [of the wart-hog] since it is too late to make a new one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7403 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Beneden, Édouard van | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (3) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Beneden, Édouard van | (1) |
