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From M. C. Stanley 22 December 1875
Summary
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10318 |
From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879]
Summary
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314F |
From M. C. Stanley 4 June 1872
Summary
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8369 |
From M. C. Stanley 14 September 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10157 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Henry Stanley ) had put Keston Lodge, Keston, Kent, at Thomas Carlyle’s disposal for the summer of 1875 ( D. A. Wilson 1898 , p. 334). Carlyle visited Down on 26 August and 12 and 19 September 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Holwood House is a country house in Keston, Kent. CD had known the previous owner, Robert Monsey Rolfe , Lord Cranworth. Lady Derby herself had stayed there for a time ( letter …
From M. C. Stanley 19 September 1877
Summary
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Henry Stanley ). Derby, the foreign secretary, was resisting pressure from Queen Victoria and the prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli , for British military intervention against Russia in the war with the Ottoman Empire. For the Stanleys’ involvement in this episode and their relationship with Shuválov, see Grosvenor 2011 and Otte 2011 . Popularisations of CD’s theories had been banned in Russia, but his works were widely read ( Choldin 1985 , p. 85), and CD was aware of his popularity. See also Correspondence vol. 15, letter …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (4) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (4) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (5) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
