From D. F. Nevill 17 [April 1875]
Summary
Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8135 |
From T. H. Huxley [4 April 1875]
Summary
Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9875 |
To Edward Cardwell [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9908 |
To Lyon Playfair [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson [12 April 1875]
Summary
Considers the question of recognised lecturers being allowed a licence to perform animal experiments without having to obtain a certificate of fitness.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909A |
From W. E. Darwin [4 April 1875]
Summary
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909F |
To W. E. Darwin [2 April 1875]
Summary
About elections to [an unspecified] club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9910 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 [April 1875]
Summary
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9911 |
From Thomas Belt 3 April 1875
Summary
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
| Author: | Thomas Belt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9912 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 April 1875
Summary
Payne will send vine cuttings.
Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.
He is moved by denudation of the Weald.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9913 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 April 1875]
Summary
Another message about club elections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914 |
From John Lubbock 5 April [1875]
Summary
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914F |
To G. J. Romanes 7 April [1875]
Summary
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9916 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1875
Summary
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 7 April [1875]
Summary
Sends the Memorial [concerning animal experimentation].
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917A |
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 |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
From Federico Delpino 8 April 1875
Summary
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9919 |
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
From John Murray 9 April [1875]
Summary
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 447 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9921 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Allen, Thomas | (2) |
| Burgess, Thomas | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
