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 |
To Robert Garner 22 February [1870–1]
Summary
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Garner |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Robert Garner, The natural history of the county of Stafford (London: John van Voorst, 1844)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115F |
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 432, Krause 1884 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
To George Cupples 20 September [1870]
Summary
Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.
He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (19 December 2002, lot 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322F |
To ? 23 March [1870–1]
Summary
Declines offer of book on physics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7147 |
To ? 14 June [1870]
Summary
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 14 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7233 |
To ? 17 November [1870]
Summary
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993F |
To ? 28 December [1870]
Summary
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402F |
From William Ogle [after 17 December 1870]
Summary
Would be pleased to be visited by CD.
J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 17 Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7397 |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From G. H. Darwin [20 April 1870]
Summary
Is leaving tonight for Genoa;
sends a French paper [not identified].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7046 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7091 |
From Edward Caldwell Rye 14 February 1870
Summary
Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].
| Author: | Edward Caldwell Rye |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7106 |
From E. C. Rye 29 June 1870
Summary
Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.
| Author: | Edward Caldwell Rye |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7252 |
From J. J. Weir 4 July 1870
Summary
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264 |
From Benjamin Collins Brodie 9 June 1870
Summary
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
| Author: | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7225 |
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
From John Murray 1 July 1870
Summary
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 376 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7259 |
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [25 April 1870]
Summary
Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7174 |
To E. P. Wright 25 May [1870]
Summary
Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
| Date: | 25 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031994) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7201F |
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