To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To George Busk 2 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 2 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7921 |
To F. E. Abbot 6 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s views [on religion] are far from clear. He cannot make up his mind how far an inward conviction that there must be some Creator or First Cause is really trustworthy evidence. Does not feel he has thought deeply enough to express himself publicly on religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 6 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7924 |
To Anton Dohrn 8 September 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his name on the list of naturalists to whom annual report [on zoological station] should be sent.
His health has been very bad for last six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 8 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926 |
To Otto Kratz 8 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for sending the photographs of hairy people at the Burmese court.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Kratz |
Date: | 8 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926F |
To Alexander Agassiz 10 September [1871 or 1873]
Summary
Discusses exchange of books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871 or 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932 |
To Osbert Salvin 10 September [1871]
Summary
CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932A |
To Chauncey Wright 12 September 1871
Summary
CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.
Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7933 |
To Wallis Nash 12 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for facts relating to inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
Date: | 12 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7934 |
To George Busk 13 September [1871]
Summary
CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 13 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7937 |
To John Murray 13 September 1871
Summary
Arrangements for distribution and review of pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s Darwinism: being an examination of Mr St. G. J. Mivart’s "Genesis of species" (1871)], which CD had reprinted at his own expense.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 224–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7940 |
To H. Ramu 13 September 1871
Summary
Obliged for letter about appendages on faces of goats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | H Ramu |
Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7941 |
To J. R. Martin 15 September 1871
Summary
Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Royle Martin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.403) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7943 |
To A. D. Bartlett 15 September 1871
Summary
CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7944 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
To A. D. Bartlett 20 September [1871]
Summary
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 20 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7952 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1871]
Summary
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7958 |
To W. H. Flower 22 September [1871]
Summary
Asks WHF to check over some enclosed MS pages [Origin, 6th ed.?]. CD quotes some of WHF’s remarks, but should WHF not wish to be mixed with CD’s theoretic notions, CD will omit the whole paragraph.
Many think CD’s notions are "rubbish, pleasantly flavoured", like the reviewer in the Quarterly Review, who CD cannot doubt is "Mr Mivart, with bigotry arrogance illiberality & many other nice qualities".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 22 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7963 |
To Paolo Mantegazza 22 September 1871
Summary
Explains that he cannot agree with Mantegazza’s views on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paolo Mantegazza |
Date: | 22 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Archivio della Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia 2 (1872): 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7963F |
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Bartlett, A. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |