To ? 26 February 1877
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | eBay (September 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871A |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
From ? 13 June 1877
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10998 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 June [1877] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
To Nature 15 August [1877]
Summary
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 15 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 23 August 1877, p. 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108 |
To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11245 |
To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
From Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Author: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10336 |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1877?]
Summary
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Apr 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A44, A71–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10343 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
From Adolphe de Stillfried [1877?]
Summary
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Author: | Adolphe de Stillfried |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10744 |
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