From John Michels 3 May 1870
Summary
Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10495 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 22 February [1870]
Summary
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 22 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13060 |
From Charles Wicksted to Georgina Tollet 13 March [1870?]
Summary
Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Author: | Charles Wicksted |
Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
Date: | 13 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13857 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From St G. J. Mivart [25 June 1870?]
Summary
Sets a time for CD to call.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5927 |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
From Gilbert William Child 26 January [1870]
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6579 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
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 G. W. Child 16 February [1870]
Summary
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6617 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
To Thomas Woolner 10 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
Date: | 10 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6650 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6788 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 May 1870]
Summary
Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.
Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6964 |
To ? 17 November [1870]
Summary
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993F |
To Francis Darwin 5 December [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7021 |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From G. H. Darwin [20 April 1870]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Apr 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7046 |
From Anne Jane Cupples [28 November 1870]
Summary
Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.
Author: | Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Nov 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7053 |
From Federico Delpino [1870]
Summary
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7055 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Murray, John (b) | (9) |
Sclater, P. L. | (8) |
Wallace, A. R. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (354) |
Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
Murray, John (b) | (16) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (12) |
Galton, Francis | (11) |