From F. M. Balfour [22 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12786 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
To S. H. Haliburton 22 November 1880
Summary
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12839 |
To J. V. Carus 22 November 1880
Summary
Very pleased by JVC’s note about Movement in plants. Feared he would find it intolerably dull. Some missing sheets are being replaced. Also sends a perfect copy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 183–184) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
| Williams, S. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
Correspondence with women
Summary
We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
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