From V. O. Kovalevsky 29 January 1871
Summary
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7463 |
From St G. J. Mivart 31 January 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for the second volume of Descent.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7467 |
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Summary
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 3 March 1871]
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 41–53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7470 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 February 1871
Summary
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7488 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489F |
From Henry Holland 19 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7490 |
From G. R. Crotch 19 [February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7491 |
From James Crichton-Browne 19 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7492 |
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