To Francis Galton [1 March 1879?]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Monday?
Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [1 Mar 1879?] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11911 |
From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
From G. H. Darwin 3 March 1879
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11914 |
To Fritz Müller 4 March 1879
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 4 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11915 |
To J. N. Lockyer 4 and 6 March [1879]
Summary
Encloses a letter [from Fritz Müller, see 11839] which "eminently deserves to be published in Nature". Discusses the form and illustration needed. Spelling problems to be referred to Robert McLachlan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
Date: | 4 and 6 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11915A |
From A. R. Leeds 4 March 1879
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Author: | Albert Ripley Leeds |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11915B |
To L. A. Errera 5 March 1879
Summary
Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
Date: | 5 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.561) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11916 |
To A. S. Wilson 5 March 1879
Summary
Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 5 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11917 |
From E. A. Darwin 8 March [1879]
Summary
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B2; DAR 105: B105, B110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11918 |
From E. A. Darwin [8 March 1879?]
Summary
Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Mar 1879?] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B2, DAR 105: B110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11919 |
To Ernst Krause 9 March 1879
Summary
CD and his brother Erasmus have read EK’s article on Erasmus Darwin. Asks whether EK would object to a translation by W. Dallas, to be offered to Fortnightly Review or to be published at CD’s expense as a book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 9 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11920 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 March [1879]
Summary
Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 10 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 163) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11921 |
From C. H. Browning 10 March 1879
Summary
Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.
Author: | C. H. Browning |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11922 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 March [1879]
Summary
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 108–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11923 |
To G. S. Ffinden 11 March 1879
Summary
Encloses cheque for Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 11 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11924 |
From Ernst Krause 12 March 1879
Summary
Glad CD is pleased by his "Erasmus Darwin". Was not able to obtain book by Anna Seward [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)]. Could CD check relevant passages for errors? Would be great honour if CD could arrange English translation. Wants to enlarge essay into book.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11925 |
From Alexander Dick-Cunyngham 12 March 1879
Summary
Report of wild ass crossed with tame one in India.
Author: | Alexander Dick-Cunyngham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11926 |
To W. S. Dallas 12 March [1879]
Summary
Asks whether WSD would be interested in translating Ernst Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424] into English.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | 12 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11927 |
To Robert McLachlan 12 March [1879]
Summary
Asks RMcL to correct the proper names in enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature. CD has no book with names of Trichoptera. [See 11930.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
Date: | 12 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | Superior Galleries (dealers) (28–31 January 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11927A |
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Browning, C. H. | (1) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
Dick-Cunyngham, Alexander | (1) |
Errera, L. A. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Galton, E. A. | (2) |
Galton, E. S. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
King, Frederick | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (4) |
Leeds, A. R. | (1) |
McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Krause, Ernst | (4) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Errera, L. A. | (2) |
Galton, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (58) |
Krause, Ernst | (8) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Galton, E. A. | (4) |
Wheler, E. A. | (4) |