To ? 31 December [1861–8]
Summary
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | J. David Archibald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881A |
To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1870–82] |
| Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
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 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
To ? 31 [January 1875–82]
Summary
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889A |
To ? 3 February [1875–82?]
Summary
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889B |
To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1839–82] |
| Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To ? 16 August [1854–8]
Summary
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1854-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1578A |
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Dec 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Summary
Questions about stripes on mules.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860 or later] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 14 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
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