From Mary Congreve 27 October [1821]
Summary
Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.
Author: | Mary Congreve |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct [1821] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1 |
From E. A. Darwin [17 January 1825]
Summary
Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD’s criticism.
Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Jan 1825] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10 |
To W. D. Fox [11 May 1831]
Summary
CD’s father has given him £200 to settle his debts.
He is delighted by a magnificent anonymous gift of a microscope.
Sees a good deal of the Henslows who are expecting a child soon.
CD still talks of the "Canary scheme"; he is learning Spanish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [11 May 1831] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-100 |
To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
Date: | [Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
To William Marshall 29 May 1875
Summary
Comments on WM’s paper about ostrich feathers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall |
Date: | 29 May 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.469) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10000 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 May 1875
Summary
Asks whether enclosure [missing] has the correct title of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 454 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10001 |
To Edward Frankland 29 May [1879]
Summary
Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 29 May [1879] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10001A |
To Asa Gray 30 May [1875]
Summary
Wants seeds of Nesaea verticillata for crossing experiments to see whether seedlings from "illegitimate unions" are sterile like true hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 30 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10002 |
To C. V. Riley 30 May 1875
Summary
Thanks for the seventh of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects in the state of Missouri (Riley 1869–77).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 30 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10002F |
From Anton Dohrn 31 May 1875
Summary
AD is aware of revolutionary character of his pamphlet [Ursprung der Wirbelthiere]. Authorities will not agree with him. Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel are opposed. Younger biologists are disposed to accept his views. All he can expect is to put a stop to "the Amphioxus–Ascidian affair, and to open a road for speculation and for investigation on the side of the Annelid-homology".
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10003 |
To Linnean Society 1 January [1875]
Summary
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 1 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10004 |
From Francis Galton 2 June 1875
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10005 |
From William Marshall 2 June 1875
Summary
Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.
Will soon publish on siliceous sponges
and the skin of caterpillars.
Author: | William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10006 |
From Lawson Tait 2 June [1875]
Summary
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007 |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
To A. E. J. Modderman 3 June 1875
Summary
Thanks for the diploma conferring on him an honorary doctorate of medicine from Leiden University.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman |
Date: | 3 June 1875 |
Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007G |
From Otto Zacharias 3 June 1875
Summary
Intends to set up a biological periodical called “Darwinia” to spread and popularise Darwin’s theories; hopes CD may contribute a few words to the opening issue.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10008 |
To Lawson Tait 4 June [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 4 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10009 |
To W. B. Carpenter [October–December 1846]
Summary
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Oct–Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1001 |
From T. H. Huxley 5 June 1875
Summary
Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10010 |
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