To James Torbitt 10 April [1876]
Summary
JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 10 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11468 |
From Japetus Steenstrup [after 11 September 1876]
Summary
Thanks CD for sending a photograph.
Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632G |
To Francis Darwin 30 [May 1876]
Summary
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 [May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517 |
To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 March [1876]
Summary
Sends some cash to help WED with moving expenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10416 |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (24 and 25 November 1981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537 |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537F |
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
To James Torbitt 14 April 1876
Summary
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter, 22 April 1876, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10451 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 20 November 1876]
Summary
Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10486 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … r Skertchly, of the Geolog. Survey who is now at work on allied subjects in the Eastern counties. So that if the notion is worth anything it is safe. The more I think of it the more probable the explanation seems of a most perplexing problem. Yours affect | C. Darwin …
To Enrique Godínez 28 April 1876
Summary
Gives permission for a Spanish translation of the Origin and wishes it success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Enrique Godínez y Esteban (Enrique Godínez) |
Date: | 28 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Godínez trans. 1877, p. VIII |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10481 |
To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
To G. H. Darwin [4 June 1876]
Summary
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10530 |
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 29 January 1876?]
Summary
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Jan 1876?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366F |
To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 11 September 1876
Summary
Thanks JS for three essays. Has read with great interest the essay on the basking shark ["Sur les appareils tamiseurs ou fanons branchiaux du Pélerin", Kjo|benhaven Oversigt (1873): 47–66]. The explanation that the comb-like structures are of the nature of teeth is a "most wonderful case".
Sends his photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 11 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to); Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10594 |
To W. E. Darwin 28 October [1876]
Summary
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 28 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10657 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 November [1876]
Summary
Writes about the purchase of a horse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10680 |
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