To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
From ? 13 June 1877
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10998 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 June [1877] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
To ? 2 January 1878
Summary
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308A |
To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
To ? 13 August 1878
Summary
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11655 |
From Francis Darwin to ? 23 August 1878
Summary
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11672 |
To ? 28 September 1878
Summary
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11711 |
To ? 9 January 1879
Summary
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823 |
To ? 23 January [1879?]
Summary
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1879?] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11841 |
To ? 21 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12006F |
To ? [15 or 22 October 1848]
Summary
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [15 or 22] Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1204 |
To ? 5 June 1879
Summary
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 June 1879 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12089 |
To ? 23 October 1879
Summary
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Ronald T. Raines (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268F |
To ? [28 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [28 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 40/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1230 |
To ? 19 March 1880
Summary
Henry Forbes in a letter to Moseley describes herons on the Keeling Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12538F |
To ? 27 April 1880
Summary
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12591 |
To ? 3 August 1880
Summary
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12676 |
To ? 23 October 1880
Summary
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12771 |
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