To Alfred Krakauer 12 January 1880
Summary
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Krakauer |
Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419A |
To Lawson Tait 13 January 1880
Summary
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12420 |
From A. M. Marshall to F. M. Balfour 13 January 1880
Summary
R. Lawson Tait is generally viewed as a humbug – not a person to be associated with.
Author: | Arthur Milnes Marshall |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12421 |
From J. I. Rogers 13 January 1880
Summary
Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12422 |
From W. C. Williamson 13 January 1880
Summary
Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.
Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423 |
To Jabez Hogg 14 January 1880
Summary
CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jabez Hogg |
Date: | 14 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12423F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for cotton seeds.
Germination of Megarrhiza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 199–200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12424 |
To Lawson Tait 15 January [1880]
Summary
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12425 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 15 January 1880
Summary
The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12426 |
From Ernst Krause 16 January 1880
Summary
What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12427 |
From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
Author: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12428 |
To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 17 [Jan 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12429 |
From Lawson Tait 18 January [1880]
Summary
The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 213–214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12430 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 January [1880]
Summary
Suspects WTT-D is the author of a good review of Erasmus Darwin in Nature [21 (1880): 245–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 201–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12431 |
From Hermann Welcker 18 January 1880
Summary
Sends publications.
Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.
Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.
Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.
Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.
Author: | Hermann Welcker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12432 |
To Asa Gray 19 January 1880
Summary
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12433 |
To Ernst Krause 19 January 1880
Summary
Replies to EK’s queries about German translation of CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12434 |
From Charles Dixon 19 January 1880
Author: | Charles Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12435 |
To Asa Gray 20 January [1880]
Summary
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12436 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January 1880
Summary
Thanks EH for copy of book [Das System der Medusen (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/50 [A 9904]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12437 |
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