To G. D. Campbell [7 January 1881]
Summary
Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll |
Date: | [7 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12989 |
To É. M. Heckel 7 January [1881?]
Summary
Sends photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 7 Jan [1881?] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12990 |
From W. R. Browne [after 7] January 1881
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12991 |
From T. H. Huxley 8 January 1881
Summary
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12992 |
From Ernst Krause 8 January 1881
Summary
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12993 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 January 1881
Summary
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12994 |
From James Torbitt 8 January 1881
Summary
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12995 |
From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 217–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12996 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
To Ernst Krause 10 January 1881
Summary
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36212) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12998 |
From T. L. Brunton 10 January 1881
Summary
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12999 |
From Montagu Lubbock 10 January 1881
Author: | Montagu Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13000 |
To Joseph Fayrer [after 10 January 1881]
Summary
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet |
Date: | [after 10 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 109v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13001 |
To Lawrence Ruck 10 January 1881
Summary
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lawrence Ruck |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | M. G. Hamer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13002 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen 10 January 1881
Summary
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13003 |
From Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen [10 January 1881]
Summary
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | [10 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13004 |
To Leslie Stephen 11 January 1881
Summary
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | 11 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13005 |
From A. B. Buckley 11 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.
Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.
Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13006 |
To F. M. Balfour 12 January 1881
Summary
Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 12 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13007 |
From Leslie Stephen 12 January [1881]
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B68–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13008 |
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