To Francis Galton 2 March [1876]
Summary
Sends signed enclosure.
FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 2 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10413 |
From Francis Galton 1 December 1876
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10694 |
To Francis Galton [6–12 January 1877]
Summary
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [6–12 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10774 |
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
From Francis Galton 12 January 1877
Summary
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10783 |
To Francis Galton 11 February [1877]
Summary
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 11 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10839 |
From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
From Francis Galton 24 May 1878
Summary
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 105A: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11526 |
To Francis Galton [1 March 1879?]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Monday?
Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [1 Mar 1879?] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11911 |
To Francis Galton 22 March 1879
Summary
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 22 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11947 |
To Francis Galton 30 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 30 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12018 |
From Francis Galton 7 June 1879
Summary
Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12094 |
To Francis Galton 8 June [1879]
Summary
Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 8 June [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12095 |
From Francis Galton 9 June 1879
Summary
Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097F |
To Francis Galton 10 June [1879]
Summary
CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 10 June [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12100 |
To Francis Galton 15 [June 1879]
Summary
CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.
May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 15 [June 1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12109 |
From Francis Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;
asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12313 |
To Francis Galton 14 November [1879]
Summary
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 14 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12317 |
To Francis Galton 7 April 1880
Summary
Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 7 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12565 |
From Francis Galton 8 April 1880
Summary
Will see what can be done about getting thumb impressions, to see if the markings are persistent.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12567 |
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