To John Murray 4 May [1873]
Summary
Asks Murray not to announce Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897 |
From John Murray 23 September [1873]
Summary
Sends CD an account that has the novelty of having a balance against CD.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9064 |
From John Murray 10 February [1873]
Summary
Encloses cheque for 1000 guineas, CD’s share of profits on first 7000 copies of Expression.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 435 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8763 |
To John Murray 24 September [1873]
Summary
CD will have to make heavy corrections in Expression and Descent if there ever is a new edition of either.
Will soon begin another book [Insectivorous plants].
It and a second one [Cross and self-fertilisation] will sell only "very specially".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 352–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9066 |
From John Murray 25 September [1873]
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s cheque.
Sends CD cheque for profits on Orchids and a statement of stock on hand of CD’s works [missing].
Origin and Expression sales are stagnant.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 437, DAR 210.11: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9071 |
From Alfred Moschkau 2 [December] 1873
Summary
Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.
Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Dec] 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 249 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9125 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 January 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.
Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8737 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1872. Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences. London: Macmillan. Lucas, Prosper. 1847–50. Traité philosophique et physiologique de l’hérédité naturelle dans les états de santé et de maladie du système nerveux: avec l’application méthodique des lois de la procréation au traitement général des affections dont elle est le principe. 2 vols. Paris: J. B. …
From M. D. Conway 10 September [1873]
Summary
Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.
Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9049 |
From Gerard Krefft 3 May 1873
Summary
Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8895 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … b) New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 42: 60–132. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. …
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