To Grant Allen 2 [May] 1879
Summary
Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Date: | 2 [May] 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11967 |
To Ernst Krause 2 May 1879
Summary
CD is leaving home for three weeks’ rest. If EK finishes his life of Dr Darwin while CD is away, asks him to send the MS to W. S. Dallas for translation. CD will begin his preface, but needs rest and will not do much until he returns.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 2 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36181) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12024 |
To Reginald Darwin 2 May 1879
Summary
Leaves home on 6th for a rest.
Will commence writing Erasmus Darwin.
Apologises for keeping RD’s various books for so long a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12025 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
