To G. C. Druce 25 April 1876
Summary
Thanks Naturalist Society and Club of Northampton for his election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Claridge Druce |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy, One of the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford (Druce Archives 5.0.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10427 |
To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 4 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10440 |
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
To Henry Bradshaw 12 April [1876]
Summary
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bradshaw |
Date: | 12 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10447 |
To G. J. Romanes 14 April 1876
Summary
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10449 |
To Robert Bell 14 April [1876]
Summary
Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].
Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.
Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Bell |
Date: | 14 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10450 |
To James Torbitt 14 April 1876
Summary
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter, 22 April 1876, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10451 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10457 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 20 April [1876]
Summary
J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 20 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10459 |
To G. G. Stokes 21 April [1876]
Summary
The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10462 |
To James Torbitt 21 April 1876
Summary
Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.
Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 21 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10463 |
To T. C. Eyton 22 April 1876
Summary
Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.
Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.
Returns extracts.
Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.
CD now working on plants;
doubts he will ever return to working on man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10465 |
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 22 April 1876
Summary
Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466F |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 22 April 1876
Summary
Discussing a reprint of South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466G |
To J. V. Carus 24 April 1876
Summary
Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.
All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10468 |
To Lawson Tait 24 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10470 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1876]
Summary
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 407 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10471 |
To Federico Delpino 25 April 1876
Summary
Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10474 |
To J. E. Harting 26 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for the offer of JEH’s manuscript notes, but he is not planning to work on the subject again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Edmund Harting |
Date: | 26 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (2 October 2019, lot 259) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10474F |
letter | (38) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Torbitt, James | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Torbitt, James | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |