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 Caroline Shuttleworth 27 November [1871–80?]
Summary
Reports peculiar behaviour in a fantail pigeon, which persistently courted a ginger-beer bottle.
Author: | Caroline Jemima (Caroline) Shuttleworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov [1871-80] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13840 |
From D. Thomas [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.
Author: | D. Thomas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13849 |
From R. H. Wedgwood [1871–82]
Summary
An instance of long memory in a horse.
Author: | Rowland Henry Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | Romanes 1882a, p. 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855A |
From W. D. Fox 2[0–9?] October [1871 or 1873?]
Summary
Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4639F |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
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 |
To A. B. Buckley 18 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.
Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508 |
To Louis Bertillon 18 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for his article Valeur philosophique de l’hypothèse du transformisme (Bertillon 1870), which is very clear.
Would not himself trust so much in Agassiz’s conclusions.
Glad the essay has been published, as he believes ‘there are but few in France who admit the doctrine of evolution’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis-Adolf (Louis) Bertillon |
Date: | 18 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Librairie la 42ème Ligne, Paris (dealers) (2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6508F |
From C. H. Thiebout [1871]
Summary
As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].
Author: | Carel Hendrik Thiebout |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6523 |
To T. H. Huxley [11 or 18 May 1871]
Summary
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [11 or 18] May 1871 |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541F |
To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
From G. H. Darwin [c. 17 July 1871]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 17 July 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6765 |
From W. E. Darwin [April 1871?]
Summary
J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7048 |
To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1871 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
To Thomas Guthrie? 30 March [1871]
Summary
Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Guthrie |
Date: | 30 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection MS C 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7151 |
From Frederic Bateman 31 March [1871]
Summary
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
Author: | Frederic Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7155 |
To John Phillips [November–December 1871?]
Summary
Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [Nov–Dec 1871?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7404 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7405 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7406 |
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