From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
From Louisa Albano 22 April 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
| Author: | Louisa Albano |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7704 |
To R. F. Cooke 22 April [1871]
Summary
Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.
Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.
The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 285–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7705 |
To H. M. Westropp 22 April [1871]
Summary
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 350 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7706 |
From George Cupples 22 April 1871
Summary
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 111–12c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7707 |
From J. V. Carus 22 April 1871
Summary
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 98–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708 |
To Francis Darwin 22 April [1871?]
Summary
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708A |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Albano, Louisa | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Westropp, H. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Albano, Louisa | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
Summary
< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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- … < Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
Summary
< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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- … John Murray, 1903), vol. 1, pp. 371–372; vol. 2, p. 422. Darwin Centenary: The Portraits, Prints …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … forms, and others have remained unaltered. Page 422, par. 1, lines 16-19, substitute for …
