To ? [1872 or later?]
Summary
Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1872 or later?] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8135F |
To ? 8 January [1872]
Summary
Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.405) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8150 |
To ? [16 February – 21 March 1872]
Summary
"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872] |
| Classmark: | Famous Notables (dealers) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8211F |
To ? 23 March [1872–4]
Summary
CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8250 |
To ? 21 April 1872
Summary
[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8297 |
To ? 22 May 1872
Summary
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8347 |
To ? 27 May 1872
Summary
Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 27 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8355 |
To ? 13 June [1872–4]
Summary
Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 June [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | Brandes Autographs (dealers) (January 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8379F |
To ? 10 July [1872–3]
Summary
Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 July [1872-3] |
| Classmark: | Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404F |
To ? 12 July [1872–4]
Summary
Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 July [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406F |
To ? 30 July [1872–4]
Summary
Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 July [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8438 |
To ? 9 August [1872–4]
Summary
Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections (Autograph Collection (Bremer–Drew), Box 3, Folder 309) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460F |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660F |
To ? 5 December 1872
Summary
Thanks for gift of a book, and offers to send copy of Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (3 November 2011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8660H |
To ? 9 December 1872
Summary
Thanks an unidentifiable natural history society for electing him an honorary member.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Galerie Frédéric Castaing (dealer) (November 2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8665F |
To ? 15 February [1872–4]
Summary
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9292 |
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: 4 hits
- … Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin …
- … Letter 8140 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [3 January 1872] Darwin congratulates his son for …
- … Letter 8146 - Darwin to Treat, M., [5 January 1872] Darwin praises Mary Treat’s …
- … Letter 8171 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L., [21 January 1872] Darwin thanks his niece for the …
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
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … Wallich’s ideas. The two men were in touch again early in 1872, when Darwin requested permission to …
- … DCP-LETT-3020; 18 April [1869], DCP-LETT-6701; 24 February [1872], DCP-LETT-8223; and [20 March 1872 …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
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: 2 hits
- … of the emotions in man and animals , published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of …
- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
