To ? 26 February 1877
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | eBay (September 2001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871A |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
From ? 13 June 1877
Summary
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A12–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10998 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Unidentified | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Unidentified |
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Matches: 2 hits
- … Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin …
- … Letter 11096 - Darwin to Romanes, G. J., [9 August 1877] Darwin points out a mistake made …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
Matches: 3 hits
- … sketch of an infant’, published in Mind in 1877.[2] The full text of the notebook is available …
- … pencil) by Emma Darwin must have been added on 19 January 1877, when Francis Darwin’s son Bernard …
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
