To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
DCP-LETT-6525
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ladies |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6525 |
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
To ? 20 February [1869]
Summary
Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.
Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6624F |
To the Athenæum 19 June 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 19 June 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787 |
To ? 23 June 1869
Summary
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 June 1869 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6795 |
To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |
To the Admiralty 9 [May 1846]
Summary
Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | 9 [May 1846] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-694 |
To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
To ? 17 November [1870]
Summary
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993F |
To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870s?] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To ? 23 March [1870–1]
Summary
Declines offer of book on physics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Mar [1870-1] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7147 |
To ? 14 June [1870]
Summary
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7233 |
To ? 28 December [1870]
Summary
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402F |
From ? [1872–4]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1872–4] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7424 |
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