From G. Chiantore 16 June 1875
Summary
Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]
Author: | G. Chiantore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1875 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020A |
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1875]
Summary
Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10021 |
From R. L. Tait 17 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10022 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1875]
Summary
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 386–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10024 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1875
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 30–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10025 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June 1875
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 388 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10026 |
To Linnean Society 23 June 1875
Summary
Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 23 June 1875 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.917) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10027 |
To R. F. Cooke 24 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10028 |
From Lawson Tait 24 June [1875]
Summary
An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10029 |
From J. W. Clark 25 June 1875
Summary
Observations of fear in animals marked by dilation of pupils.
Author: | Joseph Warner Clark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10030 |
To C. V. Riley 25 June [1875]
Summary
Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.
Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 25 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10030F |
From R. F. Cooke 26 June 1875
Summary
Sends first copy of Insectivorous plants to CD. Price must be 15s.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 455 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10031 |
To Mr Russell 26 June [1875]
Summary
Is sorry his correspondent has had so much trouble about his address. Suggests he send the book from R. D. Fitzgerald [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)] either by post or by rail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mr Russell |
Date: | 26 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Nate’s Autographs (dealer) (January 1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10031F |
To R. F. Cooke 27 June [1875]
Summary
Sorry to hear price of 15s [for Insectivorous plants]. Asks that JM consider 14s. Fears small sale at 15s. It is his fault – he never can help making his books too big.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 27 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 336–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10032 |
From J. V. Carus 28 June 1875
Summary
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10033 |
From R. F. Cooke 28 June 1875
Summary
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 458 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10034 |
To R. F. Cooke 29 June [1875]
Summary
Mentioned to Appleton only that stereotypes [for Insectivorous plants] would be provided for "a little above cost price". Glad the price of the book will be 14s. He likes making money, but cares more for wider distribution of his books. Is uneasy about sale of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 29 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 334–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10035 |
From J. G. F. Riedel 30 June 1875
Summary
Pigmentation of Celebesians’ skin changes from birth onward. Passes through some of Paul Broca’s types.
Author: | Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10036 |
To W. C. Williamson 30 June [1875]
Summary
Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
Date: | 30 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10037 |
To F. J. Cohn [30 June 1875]
Summary
CD’s publisher is sending FJC an early copy of Insectivorous plants, in which he hopes that FJC’s admirable papers are acknowledged with the respect that they deserve.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | [30 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10037A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Tait, Lawson | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Tait, Lawson | (11) |
Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
John Murray | (3) |