To Richard Kippist 24 November [1864]
Summary
CD sends [to the Linnean Society] a paper "On one of the most curious orchids in the world" [read J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 156–62]. [See 4680].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4678 |
To Richard Kippist 8 February 1865
Summary
Requests all parts of Transactions due him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1865 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4767 |
To Richard Kippist 22 April [1868]
Summary
"Please give Bearer Books for me.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2 (Box 3, Folder 36)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6136 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
To Richard Kippist? 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is sending some books by carrier. Requests that he be given the 1st and also the 10th editions of Vestiges of creation [1844, 1853], and also the 2d edition of Baden Powell’s Unity of worlds [1856]. "No other editions will be of any service." [See Origin (1861), "Historical sketch".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gallery of History (dealers) (1997) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2678 |
To Richard Kippist 13 February [1861?]
Summary
Gives notice of returning books by a carrier and thanks for assistance.
Asks whether Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville’s Ostéographie (1839–64) includes rabbits or hares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1861?] |
| Classmark: | James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061A |
To Richard Kippist 31 January [1869?]
Summary
"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1869?] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (pasted in Mueller 1858–82, vol. 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426A |
To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]
Summary
Sends paper to be read ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3476 |
To Richard Kippist 18 January [1865]
Summary
Asks that the long paper that he is sending for the Society be acknowledged when received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747A |
To Richard Kippist 12 May [1868?]
Summary
Returns volumes of the Ibis.
Requests T. C. Jerdon’s Birds of India
and Thomas Bell’s British reptiles
as well as vols. 5 & 6 of Ibis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 12 May [1868?] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6169A |
To Richard Kippist 27 [February or March 1861?]
Summary
Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 27 [Feb or Mar] 1861 |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3889A |
To Richard Kippist 10 March [1858]
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2238 |
To Richard Kippist? 11 December [1860]
Summary
Orders several volumes: Mémoires du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle 8 (1822), Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 14 (1826), and BAAS Report containing Owen’s Presidential Address [1858, pp. xli–cx].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3016 |
To [Richard Kippist] 4 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; mentions borrowing and returning volumes. Orders a volume containing a paper by R. J. H. Dutrochet ["Recherches sur la volubilité des tiges de certains végétaux et sur la cause de ce phénomène", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 295–303].
Notes that his health is better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 4 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.309) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4851 |
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
To Richard Kippist 13 May [1863 or 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 13 May [1863 or 1868] |
| Classmark: | Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4159 |
To Richard Kippist 23 February [1857]
Summary
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2058 |
To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]
Summary
Asks that referee of his [Catasetum] paper be informed that if it is ordered to be printed he will borrow woodcuts. But if referee thinks fit, he will withdraw it, for almost all will be published in Orchids. He is not willing to spare time to condense it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3477 |
To Richard Kippist 6 May [1864]
Summary
Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 6 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4486 |
To Richard Kippist 10 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Is sending some books for the Linnean Society Library.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7434 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Kippist, Richard | (23) |
| Linnean Society | (7) |
