To ? 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7513 |
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
To ? 10 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7747 |
To ? 28 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7836F |
To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 July 1871 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
To Nature 1 July [1871]
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846 |
From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12385 |
To Maria [1871–82]
Summary
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12386 |
From Maria [1871–82]
Author: | Maria |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12387 |
From A child of God [after 24 February 1871?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To an editor 12 October [1871]
Summary
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8003 |
To ? 20 November [1871]
Summary
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8076 |
To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 January [1871]
Summary
Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7427 |
From Francis Wedgwood 4 January 1871
Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7428 |
From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
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