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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   1 April [1879]

Summary

Thanks for the plants for heliotropic experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  1 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 169)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11964

From Alfred Newton   1 April 1879

Summary

Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.

Author:  Alfred Newton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 172: 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11965

To Reginald Darwin   1 April 1879

Summary

The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.

Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Reginald Darwin
Date:  1 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 153: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11966

From Reginald Darwin   2 April 1879

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Summary

Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.

Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.

Author:  Reginald Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 150–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11968

To Ernst Krause   2 April 1879

Summary

CD agrees entirely with EK’s proposal. Has collected a good deal of material. Useless to hunt for correspondence between Dr Darwin and Samuel Johnson. They met only once and hated one another. Dr Darwin is said to have taken Henry Brooke, who published a poem entitled "Universal beauty", as a model.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  2 Apr 1879
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36179)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11969

To Alfred Newton   2 April [1879]

Summary

"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."

Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Newton
Date:  2 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11970

To Elliott Coues   [after 2 April 1879]

Summary

Memorial in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elliott Coues
Date:  [after 2 Apr 1879]
Classmark:  Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 4: 176–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11970F

From Nicolai Mengden   2 April 1879

Summary

NvM is 17 years old. Confused by reading CD’s works and Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. Can a believer in CD’s theory believe in God?

Author:  Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11971

To E. S. Galton   2 April [1879]

Summary

Parcel of drawings and MS arrived safely.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Sophia Galton
Date:  2 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11972

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   3 April [1879]

Summary

Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  3 Apr [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11973

From Henry Reeks   3 April 1879

Summary

Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.

Author:  Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 176: 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11974

From Raphael Meldola   4 April 1879

Summary

Sends specimens from F. Müller.

Criticises A. R. Wallace’s review of Grant Allen’s The colour-sense [Nature 19 (1879): 501–5].

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 135
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11975

From V. H. Darwin   4 April 1879

Summary

Is interested to hear of CD’s life of Dr Erasmus Darwin. There is no photo of Breadsall Priory, but she would be happy to make a drawing of it.

Author:  Violetta Harriot Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11976

To Reginald Darwin   4 April 1879

Summary

Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.

Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Reginald Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 153: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11977

From H. G. Zeuthen   5 April 1879

Summary

CD made an ordinary member of the Royal Danish Academy. [See 11984.]

Author:  Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 230: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11978A

To C. M. C. Darwin   6 April 1879

Summary

Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.

His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.

Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:  6 Apr 1879
Classmark:  The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11978F

From Henry Reeks   7 April 1879

Summary

Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.

Author:  Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 176: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11979

From Reginald Darwin   7 April 1879

Summary

Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].

Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.

Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.

Author:  Reginald Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.14: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11980

From Emma Darwin to Nicolai Mengden   8 April 1879

Summary

Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:  8 Apr 1879
Classmark:  Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11981

To Reginald Darwin   8 April 1879

Summary

Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.

The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.

Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Reginald Darwin
Date:  8 Apr 1879
Classmark:  DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11982
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