To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To [Post Office Savings Bank] 11 February [1876]
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10388 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10381 |
To J. N. Lockyer 18 February [1876]
Summary
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10403 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 24 February 1876]
Summary
Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 65/1v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10409 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 February 1876
Summary
Murray wishes to settle payments for Descent [2d ed., 11th thousand]. Over 500 copies of the 1000 printed have been sold.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 482 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10404 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10382 |
To H. T. Stainton 11 February [1876]
Summary
Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10385 |
To Fritz Müller [18 February 1876]
Summary
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [18 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10400 |
From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1876
Summary
Sends cheque for Descent [2d ed., 1875 issue].
Has sent corrections to printer for Climbing plants
and Origin. Has ordered to print: 1250 copies of Origin,
500 of Climbing plants,
and 1000 of Naturalist’s voyage [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 483 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10407 |
From Francis Galton 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B3–B11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10395 |
To Lawson Tait 22 February [1876]
Summary
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10406 |
To Eduard Koch? 6 February 1876
Summary
Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Koch |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10383 |
From Arthur Nicols 24 February 1876
Summary
Is putting together a natural history book for intelligent children [The puzzle of life (1877)]; would like CD’s opinion on the project in general and on the completed first chapter in particular.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10408 |
To Fritz Müller [9 February 1876]
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10384 |
To J. J. Weir 14 February [1876]
Summary
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10392 |
From Lawson Tait 21 February 1876
Summary
RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.
Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 28–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10405 |
From B. J. Edwards & Co. 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
| Author: | B. J. Edwards & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10398 |
| letter | (35) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Tyndall, John | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Tyndall, John | (4) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
