To Charles Lyell 3 September [1874]
Summary
Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.
Describes his holiday in Southampton.
Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9621 |
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- … 1862 . CD refers to John Wesley Judd . See letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
- … Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . Maria Sophia Heathcote . The postscript to the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 , …
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]
Summary
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 May [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9477 |
To Michael Foster 25 April [1874]
Summary
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 25 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9427 |
To J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.
Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.
Reports on work in progress.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10422 |
To Charles Lyell 23 September 1874
Summary
Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.
Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.
Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9654 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
To Michael Foster 23 April [1874]
Summary
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 23 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425 |
To Charles Lyell [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]
Summary
Arranges a visit to CL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715 |
To John Price 18 September [1875–81]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 18 Sept [1875-9] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13835 |
To R. F. Cooke 10 April [1874]
Summary
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 10 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9402 |
To John Murray 12 April 1874
Summary
Discusses 2d edition of Descent. CD is inclined to a cheap edition and asks JM to consider a one-volume edition in double-column format.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9404 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1875]
Summary
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Feb [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 374–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9850 |
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To J. D. Hooker 25 February [1875]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Feb [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 379–81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9873 |
To Charles Lyell 5 July [1856]
Summary
Discusses theory of submerged continental extensions. Objects that if it is applied to one island, it must be applied to all. Admits that some volcanoes may have been associated with subsidence, in contrast to his former view. Cites evidence from S. American Cordillera. Doubts that elevation associated with volcanoes is merely local, and that great ocean areas are necessarily sinking.
Says he will make his essay [on species] as complete as possible and will discuss CL’s Principles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 July [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.133) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1917 |
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- … Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 July 1856 . CD refers to his map (pl. 3) in Coral reefs on which fringing reefs, which he believed to be areas ofelevation, are coloured red. These coincided with areas of active volcanoes, marked by vermilion spots. CD, however, found no reason in later years to change his view. The second edition of Coral reefs , published in 1874, …
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Foster, Michael | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |