To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
| Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From G. H. Darwin [3 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7091 |
From Edward Caldwell Rye 14 February 1870
Summary
Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].
| Author: | Edward Caldwell Rye |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7106 |
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
From Robert Swinhoe 10 February 1870
Summary
Asks who the gentleman is who is studying cattle skulls; RS has some that he would like examined.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 334 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7102 |
From Fritz Müller 16 February 1870
Summary
Sends specimens of Passiflora and seeds for T. H. Farrer [letter enclosed with 7188].
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7108 |
To Robert Garner 22 February [1870–1]
Summary
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Garner |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115F |
To John Lubbock 26 February [1870]
Summary
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7117 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 February 1870]
Summary
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7096 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
To Gustav Jäger 17 February 1870
Summary
Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7111 |
From John Lubbock 27 February [1870]
Summary
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: 166–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7118 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From Asa Gray 27 February and 1 March 1870
Summary
Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.
In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: B80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7119 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
To James Orton 24 February [1870]
Summary
Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.
Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Orton |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7116 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1870
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7093 |
To the American Philosophical Society 5 February 1870
Summary
Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | American Philosophical Society. |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.378) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7097 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870]
Summary
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7124 |
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| Benson, Berry | (1) |
| Bissell, G. P. | (1) |
| Child, G. W. | (1) |
| D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Gray, J. L. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, M. S. | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Parker, M. S. | (2) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Rye, E. C. | (1) |
| Swale, William | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| American Philosophical Society. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Garner, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
