To George Rolleston [1860–82]
Summary
Envelope only, addressed to Professor Rolleston in Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | [1860–82] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891F |
To Horace Darwin 1 January 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392 |
From C. H. Tindal 1 January 1880
Summary
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392F |
From Samuel Butler 2 January 1880
Summary
Asks CD for reference to the edition of Kosmos that contains the original of Ernst Krause’s article on Dr Erasmus Darwin. There are serious differences between the translation by W. S. Dallas and the Feb [1879] article by Krause on which CD, in the preface to Erasmus Darwin, says it was based. SB notes in particular that the concluding sentence of the translation, which is clearly aimed at [SB’s] Evolution, old and new, is not in the original. Since readers will assume the text of Erasmus Darwin was written before his book appeared, SB asks for an explanation.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12393 |
From Joseph Prestwich 2 January 1880
Summary
Having reviewed the history of the Glen Roy debate ["On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber, and their bearing on other phenomena of the glacial period", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–776], JP wishes to know whether it is accurate to say CD has abandoned the marine theory.
Author: | Joseph Prestwich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12394 |
From B. J. Sulivan 2 January [1880]
Summary
Repeats extracts of a letter received from Bishop Stirling’s daughter containing anecdotes and observations of the Fuegian natives.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11818 |
To Samuel Butler 3 January 1880
Summary
Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12396 |
From J.-H. Fabre 3 January 1880
Author: | Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12398 |
To Joseph Prestwich 3 January 1880
Summary
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Prestwich |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12397 |
To B. J. Sulivan 3 January 1880
Summary
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 3 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 515 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399 |
From Wallis Nash 4 January 1880
Summary
Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.
Author: | Wallis Nash |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12400 |
To Ercole Ricotti 4 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ercole Ricotti |
Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12399F |
To Adolf Ernst 5 January 1880
Summary
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12402 |
To Ernst Krause 5 January 1880
Summary
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36198) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12403 |
To C. H. Tindal 5 January 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405F |
To Vincent, Teja & Co 5 January 1880
Summary
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vincent, Teja & Co. |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12405 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 January 1880
Summary
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12401 |
From A. S. Wilson 5 January 1880
Summary
Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].
Observations on germination of wheat.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404 |
To William Cole 6 January 1880
Summary
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cole |
Date: | 6 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12407 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January [1880]
Summary
Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404F |
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Krause, Ernst | (27) |
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