To ? 2 May [1869 or later]
Summary
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 May [1869-82] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866A |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
To ? 23 June 1869
Summary
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 June 1869 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6795 |
To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |