From A. R. Wallace 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10247 |
From A. R. Wallace 21 July 1875
Summary
Response to Insectivorous plants. Surprised that CD did not discuss origin of the contrivances. Critics will interpret them as inexplicable by theory of natural selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10085 |
From W. R. S. Ralston 2 December 1875
Summary
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
| Author: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287 |
From W. R. S. Ralston 3 December 1875
Summary
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
| Author: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288 |
To Francis Darwin [c. February 1875?]
Summary
Begs FD’s pardon: his notes on Utricularia amethystina are on same page with those on U. nelumbifolia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9219B |
From G. C. Robertson 17 February 1875
Summary
Sends a prospectus for the new journal, Mind, and invites CD’s co-operation.
| Author: | George Croom Robertson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9862 |
To Francis Darwin 30 April [1875]
Summary
Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9958B |
From Francis Darwin [1875?]
Summary
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9791F |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875]
Summary
Sends Linnean papers.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287F |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
To Francis Darwin [31 August 1875 or later]
Summary
Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Aug 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10178 |
From M. C. Stanley 14 September 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10157 |
From W. R. S. Ralston 26 April 1875
Summary
Translates letter [of 30 Mar 1875, missing] to CD from the Society of Naturalists in the Imperial University of Kazan, awarding an honorary membership.
| Author: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9952 |
From Francis Darwin 1 and 2 May [1875]
Summary
Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 and 2 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961F |
From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
From R. D. Fitzgerald 20 September 1875
Summary
On fertilisation in certain orchids.
| Author: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10161 |
From M. C. Stanley 22 December 1875
Summary
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10318 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
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