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To G. D. Campbell   [7 January 1881]

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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

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Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.

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]

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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

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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]

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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

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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

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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]

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Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.

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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