To Edward Frankland 29 May [1879]
Summary
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 29 May [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10001A |
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 5 [May] 1879
Summary
Thinks it better to send proofs of his preface [to Erasmus Darwin] rather than MS – he always corrects proofs heavily. Doubts that it is worth translating into German – it is written for the English public. Supposes EK will not object to a French translation and an American edition of the little book. Has written a dozen pages during a break
in his experimental work [on movement of plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 5 [May] 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36180) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978 |
From James Torbitt 1 May 1879
Summary
Describes one of his varieties of potato in its third and fourth years. [CD notes his observations on this variety grown at Down, July 1879.]
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12023 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 3 May 1879]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12026 |
To James Torbitt 3 May 1879
Summary
Encourages JT’s experiments. His case of flowering of black potatoes is curious. CD surprised that they are odoriferous and visited by bees. This letter was thought to be to David Moore, because it was in the private collection of a descendant, but is extremely close to a draft to JT on the letter from JT, 30 April 1879 (DCP-LETT-12020). It is not known how it passed from JT to David Moore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 3 May 1879 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin (DSS/DM/1/1/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12027 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 3 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12028 |
To E. A. Wheler 3 May 1879
Summary
Returns documents pertaining to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Date: | 3 May 1879 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12029 |
To C. S. Wedgwood [3 May 1879]
Summary
Was it Lady Charlemont or Charleville who remarked how agreeable their grandfather was?
Asks her to confirm story about Robert Darwin (father of Dr Erasmus).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [3 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12030 |
From T. H. Farrer 4 May 1879
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12031 |
From Ernst Krause 5 May 1879
Summary
Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.
Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.
CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12032 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12033 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 May 1879
Summary
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12034 |
From G. J. Goschen and Edward Enfield [before 6 May 1879]
Summary
Invitation to the University College Hospital festival and dinner
Author: | George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen; Edward Enfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 May 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 48v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12034F |
From Leonard Darwin 7 May 1879
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12035 |
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
From W. S. Dallas 7 May 1879
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 102–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12037 |
From Ernst Krause 8 May 1879
Summary
Will wait for CD’s preliminary essay before proceeding with German edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. Regards CD’s essay as the principal attraction. Would like to finish German edition by end of July.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12038 |
letter | (61) |
Allen, Grant | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Collings, E. J. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, Reginald | (1) |
Darwin, V. H. | (2) |
Enfield, Edward | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
Fordyce, John | (1) |
Gaertner, Albin | (1) |
Goschen, G. J. | (1) |
Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
Harris, C. | (1) |
Kaufman, K. P. von | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (4) |
Moore, Charles (a) | (1) |
Pitman, H. A. | (1) |
Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Tachau, Robert | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Winn, W. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
Krause, Ernst | (6) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Darwin, Reginald | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (61) |
Krause, Ernst | (10) |
Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
Allen, Grant | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (3) |