To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
| Classmark: | Empire Auction (dealers) (1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To ? 30 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10552 |
To ? 31 [January 1875–82]
Summary
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889A |
To ? 3 February [1875–82?]
Summary
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889B |
To ? [February 1875 or earlier?]
Summary
Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb 1875 or earlier?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9790A |
To ? [after 17 February 1875]
Summary
CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 17 Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9795 |
To ? 23 January [1875–82]
Summary
Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9828G |
To ? 17 February [1875–8]
Summary
Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1875-8] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9859 |
To ? 10 March 1875
Summary
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9882F |
To ? 8 April [1875–82]
Summary
Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | Jane da Mosto (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917F |
To ? 31 [May 1875]
Summary
Agrees that time alone can do nothing to modify species.
Is aware that the Papaveraceae are self-fertile but feels this does not preclude an occasional cross.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 [May 1875] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9960 |
To ? 4 May [1875]
Summary
Sends photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9970 |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Matches: 3 hits
- … they resemble those by Elliott and Fry of the same date. In 1875, one of Wallich’s photographs was …
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … face’. The Gardener’s Chronicle , n.s. 3:62 (6 March 1875), p. 309. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, …
