To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
To Williams & Norgate [November 1874 – May 1880]
Summary
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [Nov 1874 – May 1880] |
Classmark: | Ms Caroline Waid (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028F |
To Williams & Norgate [before 4 September 1880]
Summary
Requests a list of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [before 4 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390F |
To Williams & Norgate 28 April [1880]
Summary
Forgot he owned vol. 1 of Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius’s Vorträge über Viehzucht und Raßenkenntniss (Nathusius 1872–80). Please to send vol. 2 when convenient.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 28 Apr [1880] |
Classmark: | eBay (22 August 2019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12593F |
To Williams & Norgate 3 May [1880]
Summary
Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 3 May [1880] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12595J |
[Williams & Norgate] 16 June [1880]
Summary
Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 June [1880] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619F |
To Williams & Norgate 16 November 1880
Summary
Although he cannot use the Neapolitan work, his respect for the service to science rendered by the Zoological Station at Naples leads him to subscribe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (4 November 2010, lot 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12823A |
To Williams & Norgate 20 February 1881
Summary
Queries account for book "Fauna Neapol. II"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 20 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 670, 7 and 8 July 1998, lot 414) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058F |
To Williams & Norgate 16 August [1881]
Summary
Returns an invoice for a book he has not received and does not remember ordering.
The author sent him a copy a few weeks ago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Aug [1881] |
Classmark: | James Cranfield, Cranfield’s Curiosity Cabinet (dealer and private collector) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288G |
To [Williams & Norgate] [1878 – November 1880]
Summary
Can the correspondent get some pamphlets written by [K. G. W. Stenzel?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [1878 – Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864A |
To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653 |
To Williams and Norgate 29 [January 1860]
Summary
Orders copy of book by Louis Agassiz [Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis (1846)].
Mentions book sent by Quatrefages de Bréau.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 29 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2666 |
To Williams and Norgate? 6 March [1860]
Summary
Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2723 |
To Williams and Norgate 1 April [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about French dictionaries.
Asks that Westminster Review [of Apr 1860] be sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/02) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2739 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 April [1860]
Summary
Asks Williams & Norgate to forward one copy of the German translation of Origin (Bronn trans. 1860) to Jan van der Hoeven, and another to Jacob Moleschott.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (20 February 2005, Lot 273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2755F |
To Williams & Norgate 13 [May 1860]
Summary
Orders latest issues of North British Review and Dublin Magazine of Natural History. Also would like an order placed for him for a French translation of F. Unger, Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzen-Welt [1852], if such a translation has appeared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797 |
To Williams & Norgate 18 May [1860]
Summary
Requests a copy of Unger 1852 (Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt; an attempt at a history of the vegetable kingdom).
Requests a copy of the issue of British and Foreign Medical Review which contains a review of Origin, if it is a different publication from British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 18 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Lanier family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2810F |
To Williams & Norgate [1861]
Summary
Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [1861] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3040F |
To Williams & Norgate 16 February [1861]
Summary
Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062F |