To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
From George Cupples 20 June 1870
Summary
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7237 |
To W. H. Flower 25 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7148 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 th My dear Sir I am very much obliged for your note; & I am glad to hear about M r Dallas, but he will want keeping up to the mark. I shall be pleased to have a dutch edition of my book, so pray send clean sheets & supply stereotypes of the cuts. But you must inform the publisher that we cannot supply stereotypes of 14 …
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1870
Summary
Tells of his health and family matters.
Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.
Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7246 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11; Sulivan was incorrectly listed as W. J. Sulivan). Leonard Darwin was at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; according to The Times , 21 December 1869, p. 12, he had received second prize for mathematics. Henry Norton Sulivan . Sulivan refers to Catherine Sabine Sulivan and William Wallace Trench . The enclosure has not been found. Sulivan refers to William Stephen Mitchell (see Correspondence vol. 14, …
From Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke 30 November 1870
Summary
Encloses a few answers to CD’s queries on expression. Continues to observe the expressions and habits of the Malays, Dyaks, and Saribus tribes [See Expression, pp. 21, 209].
| Author: | Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 322, 322/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7386 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11. Extreme fear is plainly discernable by the general contortions of face, moving of hands, quivering of eyelids, downcast look & muscular irritability. 12. Laughter sometimes brings tears, the eyes nearly closed, they say they nearly make water from laughter, a common expression among the female sex. 13. A man considering he could not do something or prevent anything being done, would not trouble himself & would say he was not clever or lucky. 14. …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Brooke, C. A. J. | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Brooke, C. A. J. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
