From F. M. Balfour 13 January [1881]
Summary
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13011 |
From W. M. Hacon 20 September 1881
Summary
Details of new will. 12/74ths to each son and 7/74ths to each daughter.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13346 |
From Leonard Darwin 12 October [1881]
Summary
Will be home on Saturday.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13395 |
To Francis Galton 18 [December 1881]
Summary
Can FG call on Monday evening?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13560 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 May [1881]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 10 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13153 |
To Anton Dohrn 22 February 1881
Summary
AD exaggerates what CD has done for science.
On the Zoological Yearbook, CD thinks it would be an excellent plan to give an account of zoological publications from all countries in a single work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 706) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13062 |
To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881]
Summary
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13193 |
To A. R. Wallace 10 January 1881
Summary
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12997 |
From Charles Mostyn Owen 29 May 1881
Summary
Would like to visit CD. Has not seen him for 40 years.
| Author: | Charles Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 202–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13182 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13556 |
To Ernst Haeckel 25 June 1881
Summary
EH’s scheme to visit Ceylon an excellent one. Has written to Huxley about getting money from Royal Society. If funds are unavailable, would like to subscribe £100.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 25 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13218 |
To James Paget 3 December 1881
Summary
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13526 |
To G. J. Romanes 8 December 1881
Summary
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13536 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 July [1881]
Summary
Is returning to Down.
Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 4 July [1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.594) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13232 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 November 1881
Summary
Requests a list of CD’s trust securities; he and Sara have finished Worms; asks what he should do with dividend warrant.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13445F |
To John Lubbock 2 August 1881
Summary
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13269 |
To Francis Darwin 22–3 May 1881
Summary
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22–3 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170 |
From G. J. Romanes 25 May [1881]
Summary
Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13173 |
To John Price 3 September [1881]
Summary
Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.
Cannot answer question about dotterels.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13315 |
To C. E. Norton 30 April 1881
Summary
Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13140 |
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