From W. P. Garrison 9 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,
and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".
| Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12302 |
To W. P. Garrison 16 October 1879
Summary
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12260A |
To R. F. Cooke 18 November [1879]
Summary
Thinks W. P. Garrison’s book [extracts from Journal of researches for juvenile readers] would serve as an advertisement for the Journal.
Disappointed at sale of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 364–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12327 |
From Frederick King 27 February 1879
Summary
A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.
| Author: | Frederick King |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11907 |
From K. P. von Kaufman 9 May 1879
Summary
Sends a collection of wheat varieties from Turkestan in response to a newspaper notice of CD’s interest.
| Author: | Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12046 |
To Ernst Krause 15 September 1879
Summary
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36194) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12231 |
To H. E. Litchfield 1 February [1880]
Summary
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12445 |
From W. P. Garrison 4 October 1879
Summary
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
| Author: | Wendell Phillips Garrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12248 |
To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 30 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675 |
From G. J. Romanes 21 June 1878
Summary
Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11561 |
From G. R. Jesse 19 April 1881
Summary
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
| Author: | George Richard Jesse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 60; DAR 168: 62/1 and 62/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13129 |
From W. M. Hacon 22 May 1879
Summary
Has searched to no avail for 17th- and 18th-century wills to learn how Elston Hall was acquired by Robert Darwin rather than by William Darwin, even though Robert was the younger son.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12059 |
To John Power 3 December 1878
Summary
Petition Cambridge University that candidates for an Honour degree may be relieved from the obligation of passing an examination in Greek.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Power |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Reporter, 7 December 1878, pp. 206–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768G |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (2) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Jesse, G. R. | (1) |
| Kaufman, K. P. von | (1) |
| King, Frederick | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Garrison, W. P. | (3) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
