From Francis Darwin [before 18 October 1870]
Summary
Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345F |
From Francis Darwin [after 18 October 1870]
Summary
Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346F |
To Francis Darwin 18 October [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to pay off FD’s debts. Warns him of the dangers of overspending his income and advises him strongly to keep accounts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 8 October 1870
Summary
Cancelled. Now enclosure to S7695.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 193: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7338F |
From Charles Wyville Thomson 7 October 1870
Summary
Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.
| Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7336 |
To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
From S. A. Merrell 28 October 1870
Summary
Offers to send his short article on the "Unity of generation" which supports the developmental hypothesis.
| Author: | S. A. Merrell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7352 |
To Robert Main 6 October 1870
Summary
Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Main |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7335 |
From Alexander Agassiz 22 October 1870
Summary
Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7349 |
From George Cupples 8 October 1870
Summary
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7338 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Cupples, George Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin’s “Polly”, if Polly is goodnatured. I shall send a brief card of dietary &c—to fix up for the servants. He thrives well, in spite of the season. I am glad to hear of proofs—though truly sorry that they fatigue you. The excursion, I hope, will set this to rights. Believe me | Dear Mr Darwin | ever most truly yours | George Cupples Charles Darwin, Esq r . | …
From J. D. Hooker 12 October 1870
Summary
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7343 |
To J. V. Carus 5 October [1870]
Summary
Sympathetic to JVC’s views on Franco-Prussian war [see 7332].
Astonished at JVC’s readiness to begin work. Will send sheets as soon as possible. Has asked Murray to charge for stereotypes of 64 woodblocks at cost. JVC must make his own agreement with publisher.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 16–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7333 |
To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7342 |
From T. H. Farrer 27 October 1870
Summary
Returning CD’s books.
Sympathises with women’s lot in life.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7351 |
From John Gage 19 October 1870
Summary
Convinced by CD’s Origin.
As a "student of spirit intercourse", he asks CD for more details about the scene of the dancing spoon in Journal of researches [p. 546].
| Author: | John Gage |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7347 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 October 1870
Summary
Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7334 |
To C. W. Thomson 10 October 1870
Summary
Testimonial letter hoping that CWT will be successful in getting Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | C. W. Thomson 1870, p. 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7337 |
From John Murray 10 October [1870]
Summary
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7339 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Blore, E. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |
