To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
To ? 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5170 |
To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
