To Louis Agassiz 12 April 1864
Summary
Thanks LA for Methods of study [1863].
Is gratified that he has not taken a personal dislike to CD, though he is strongly opposed to nearly everything CD has written.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 277) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4460 |
From E. A. Darwin, Charles Darwin, and W. E. Darwin to Thomas Salt 12 April 1864
Summary
Instructions concerning the payment of the principal and interest of the mortgage to Mr Childe.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold at Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4460F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
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< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
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- … < Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … 1880–1918 (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pp. 4–12. Article on Legros by Timothy Wilcox in …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … or ‘groundless.’ Mr. Darwin’s own words are (p. 412): ‘The object of this article is to point out …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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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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- … in Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1. 48. p. 412. This sentence also appears in Origin 4th …
