From A. R. Wallace 7 June 1876
Summary
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535 |
To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 21 December 1876
Summary
Sends his signature
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728F |
From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876]
Summary
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1876] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260F |
To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526 |
To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Summary
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
To Francis Darwin [c. December 1876]
Summary
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B126–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10564 |
From Margaret Frankland’s diary 30 [April 1876]
Summary
[Entry describing a Sunday morning call [see 10480a] during which CD witnessed the behaviour of a bullfinch and a canary in eating parts of some primroses and cowslips.]
Author: | Margaret Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 [Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | Mrs Bucknall (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485A |
To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876]
Summary
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 July 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10747 |
To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489A |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876]
Summary
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10604 |
To Francis Darwin [30 April 1876]
Summary
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485B |
From Andrew Clark 8 July 1876
Summary
Directions for diet and exercise, with psychological counsel.
Author: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10558 |
To Édouard Heckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739F |
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