From Robert Swinhoe 26 March 1873
Summary
Discusses expression among the Chinese. Reports certain physical characters and the practice of certain unusual customs.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8824 |
To T. L. Brunton 26 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8825 |
From G. B. Thornbery 27 March 1873
Summary
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Author: | Gregory Beddome Thornbery |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 316 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8827 |
From N. D. Doedes 27 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8828 |
From A. G. Butler 27 March 1873
Summary
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 29 March 1873
Summary
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829A |
To the Medical Times and Gazette [before 29 March 1873]
Summary
Advertising a testimonial for James Murie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Medical Times and Gazette |
Date: | [before 29 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Medical Times and Gazette, 29 March 1873, p. 350 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829F |
From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
To Marian Evans 30 March [1873]
Summary
Asks whether the Litchfields may call on her. "My wife complains that she has been very badly treated and that I ought to have asked permission for her to call on you with me when we next come to London: but I tell her that I still have some shreds of modesty."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross |
Date: | 30 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8831 |
From Marian Evans 31 March 1873
Summary
The Leweses will be happy to see the Litchfields, and hope CD will come again, with Emma.
Author: | Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Collection (GEN MSS 963) Box 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8832 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
To A. W. Bennett 11 March [1873]
Summary
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9350 |
letter | (53) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (2) |
Reeks, Henry | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Doedes, N. D. | (3) |
Reeks, Henry | (3) |
Bennett, A. W. | (2) |