To ? [1874–5?]
Summary
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1874–5?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9217 |
To ? 1 January 1874
Summary
CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9222 |
To ? 3 January 1874
Summary
Has no objection to having his name appear as honorary member of [unidentified] club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9224 |
From ? [after 14 January 1874]
Summary
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Jan 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8794 |
To ? 11 March 1874
Summary
Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9351 |
To ? 12 April 1874
Summary
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405F |
From E. T. S. [23–30 April 1874]
Summary
Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23-30 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 30 April 1874, p. 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425J |
To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
To Donders [after 15 July 1874]
Summary
Wishes he had known of atropia and hopes he will have time to try it next summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 15 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 May 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548F |
From ? 13 September 1874
Summary
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9635 |
From Emma Darwin to ? [October 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13792 |
To ? 12 November 1874
Summary
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717F |
To ? [9 December 1874, 14 December 1875, or 10 January 1877]
Summary
Invites correspondent to luncheon on Friday or Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [9 Dec] 1874 or [14 Dec] 1875 or [10 Jan] 1877 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 76, 1994) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724F |
To ? 24 December [1874–81]
Summary
Sends compliments and thanks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1874-81] |
| Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 21, 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778G |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Unidentified | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Matches: 13 hits
- … of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 …
- … sweeping conclusions on insufficient grounds. Letter 3934 - Darwin to Scott, J., [21 …
- … how to make the material worthy of publication. Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 …
- … indefatigable worker you are!”. Letter 7605 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [20 March …
- … memorial” in memory of the book. Letter 8140 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [3 …
- … how he made so many observations without aid. Letter 8146 - Darwin to Treat, M., [5 …
- … “in some well-known scientific journal”. Letter 8171 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L., [21 …
- … that Lucy is worth her weight in gold. Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 …
- … flies until he had repeated the experiment. Letter 9580 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H. D., …
- … should not yet be submitted to the publisher. Letter 9613 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
- … and thinks that it ought to be published. Letter 10523 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 June …
- … in the pursuit of her “admirable work”. Letter 11096 - Darwin to Romanes, G. J., [9 …
- … her manuscript to Nature for publication. Letter 13414 - Darwin to Harrison, L., …
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Moore, in their biography of Darwin, captioned it ‘about 1874’, while handwritten inscriptions on …
- … above, it would need to have been early in that year. A letter which Leonard wrote to his father …
- … to the portrait of Darwin, although a pencilled note on the letter could suggest that Leonard was …
- … DAR 186.34 (DCP-LETT-11484), Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified …
- … Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 47, no. 252. Rich’s letter to the Darwin family mentioning …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
Matches: 3 hits
- … the photographs, including one of Darwin. However, in a letter to Wallich of 18 April 1869, Darwin …
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … marine biology. He sent a copy to Darwin, who responded in a letter full of questions and comments …
