DCP-LETT-5308
Summary
Inquires whether readers of books and periodicals may not reasonably ask that they be delivered from publishers "ready cut". [See also Athenæum 22 Dec 1866, p. 848, for a letter in reply.]
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | Athenæum 1866.12.15: 803 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5308 |
From a lady [before 17 July 1875]
Summary
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 July 1875] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 17 July 1875, p. 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070F |
From ? 13 June 1877
Summary
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A12–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10998 |
From ? [March 1881]
Summary
Notes on the thickness of mould on the slope of the inland side of Beachy Head.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 65: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13070 |
From A child of God [after 24 February 1871?]
Summary
Urges CD to repent and seek salvation through Christ.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
Hybrid fish.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13860 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
"but most of them [verily?] Christened by myself they may be indulged with a"
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library-Eschwege 1832) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13861 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
[Fragmentary strip.] Discusses pigeons, Australia, Regents Park.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - Volz 1852) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13862 |
From ? [1872–5?]
Summary
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13888 |
From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
From ? [1872–4]
Summary
Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1872–4] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 151–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7424 |
From ? September 1872
Summary
On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8503 |
From ? [1873?]
Summary
Notes on CD’s Expression.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8706 |
From ? [1873–4?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosure to S 9290.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873–4?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714 |
From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Summary
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
From W. S. C. to George Busk 5 April 1873
Summary
Contradicts passages in Descent and Variation.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | George Busk |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 386 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8842 |
From E. T. S. [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425J |
From ? 13 September 1874
Summary
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635 |
From ? [16 February 1875]
Summary
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 140.4: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9858 |
| letter | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
| Unidentified | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
