From A child of God [after 24 February 1871?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770 |
To ? 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7513 |
From J. W. Abernethy [after 18 February 1871]
Summary
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
Author: | Julian Willis Abernethy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 18 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13771 |
To Miss Fenwick 8 February [1871–82]
Summary
Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miss Fenwick |
Date: | 8 Feb [1871-82] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13806 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 24 February [1871]
Summary
Would be pleased if CD called.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5926 |
From James Anderson [after 24 February 1871?]
Summary
Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.
[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]
Author: | James Anderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7407 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 1 February 1871
Summary
Has left Paris because of the war.
J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7472 |
From W. W. Reade 1 February 1871
Summary
Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7473 |
From Erasmus Wilson 3 February 1871
Summary
On irritation of cutaneous nerves exciting responses in unconnected skin muscles.
Author: | William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7475 |
To Asa Gray 5 February [1871]
Summary
Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.
Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.
Working on an essay on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7476 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 February 1871
Summary
Does shut eyes when scratching himself. Will ask Langstaff about muscles used when playing flute. Is back at work but hobbling around.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7476F |
From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 February 1871
Summary
Will send copy of Descent.
Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?
Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.
Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].
Pointed ears in the insane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478 |
From Felice Finzi 9 February 1871
Author: | Felice Finzi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478A |
From Thomas Meehan 10 February 1871
Summary
Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].
TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7479 |
To J. V. Carus 15 February [1871]
Summary
Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 15 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7482 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 February 1871
Summary
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 16 February 1871
Summary
"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484A |
From J. V. Carus 17 February 1871
Summary
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7485 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
John Murray | (3) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
John Murray | (5) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |