To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
From J. V. Carus 2 October 1870
Summary
The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.
Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.
Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7332 |
To J. V. Carus 5 October [1870]
Summary
Sympathetic to JVC’s views on Franco-Prussian war [see 7332].
Astonished at JVC’s readiness to begin work. Will send sheets as soon as possible. Has asked Murray to charge for stereotypes of 64 woodblocks at cost. JVC must make his own agreement with publisher.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 16–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7333 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 October 1870
Summary
Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7334 |
To Robert Main 6 October 1870
Summary
Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Main |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7335 |
From Charles Wyville Thomson 7 October 1870
Summary
Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.
| Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7336 |
To C. W. Thomson 10 October 1870
Summary
Testimonial letter hoping that CWT will be successful in getting Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7337 |
From George Cupples 8 October 1870
Summary
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7338 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 8 October 1870
Summary
Cancelled. Now enclosure to S7695.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 October 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 193: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7338F |
From John Murray 10 October [1870]
Summary
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7339 |
To J. V. Carus 11 October [1870]
Summary
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7340 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7342 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 October 1870
Summary
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7343 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 October [1870]
Summary
Does not think so poorly of Nature as JDH does, by any means; fears Popular Science Review is rather ephemeral but more durable than Nature.
The case of the charlock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 184–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7344 |
To Francis Darwin 18 October [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to pay off FD’s debts. Warns him of the dangers of overspending his income and advises him strongly to keep accounts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346 |
From John Gage 19 October 1870
Summary
Convinced by CD’s Origin.
As a "student of spirit intercourse", he asks CD for more details about the scene of the dancing spoon in Journal of researches [p. 546].
| Author: | John Gage |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7347 |
To John Murray 22 October [1870]
Summary
He agrees with his family that binding of Variation looks much better than Origin.
Asks JM to report the number of copies he has printed of Naturalist’s Voyage [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 218–19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7348 |
From Alexander Agassiz 22 October 1870
Summary
Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7349 |
From John Murray 24 October [1870]
Summary
Sends table of sales [of Journal of researches]. 2000 copies sold since 1860.
Descent has gone to press for 2500 copies.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 380 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7350 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
