From E. A. Darwin [24 January 1825]
Summary
Asks CD to do an experiment for him.
Has found a curious stone in his fire.
Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204.9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11 |
Matches: 1 hit
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To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To ? 11 March [1862–9] …
- … Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Mar …
- … 1862 11 Mar …
- … 1863 11 Mar …
- … 1864 11 Mar …
- … 1865 11 Mar …
- … 1866 11 Mar …
- … 1867 11 Mar …
- … 1868 11 Mar 1869 Unidentified …
- … Down Bromley Kent March 11 th . Dear Sir You are most entirely welcome to insert anything …
To Mr S. 11 September [1875–81]
Summary
Sends a photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632F |
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
[Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst A. von.] 1875c. Insektenfressende Pflanzen. Fremden-Blatt, 10 August 1875, pp. 11–12, and 11 August 1875, pp. 11–12.
Agassiz, Louis. 1863b. The Silurian beach. Atlantic Monthly 11: 460–71.
To Menyhért Lónyay [after 11 June 1872]
Summary
Thanks for his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Menyhért Lónyay |
| Date: | [after 11 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 154r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8383 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Menyhért Lónyay [after 11 June 1872] …
- … DAR 96: 154r Charles Robert Darwin Bassett [after 11 June 1872] Menyhért Lónyay …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872 . …
- … See letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872 . H. A. of Sc. : Hungarian Academy of …
- … the receipt of your obliging letter of June 11 th . in which you announce to me that the …
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Summary
Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
Matches: 5 hits
Balfour, John Hutton. 1873. Obituary notice of Thomas Anderson, MD, FLS. Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 11: 41–5.
[Oliver, Daniel.] 1863. [Review of J. D. Hooker’s study of Welwitschia.] Natural History Review n.s. 3: 201–11.
Torell, Otto Martin. 1859. Bidrag till Spitsbergens molluskfauna. Jemte en allmän öfversigt af Arktiska regionens naturförhârcurbr;llanden och forntida utbredning. Stockholm: Typografiska föreningens boktryckeri.
From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
| Author: | Henrietta Grace Powell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3977 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to Down on Saturday 14 February (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). …
- … From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863 …
- … Henrietta Grace Powell London, Hyde Park Gate South, 1 11 Feb 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Truly your’s | Henrietta G Powell. February 11. 1863. Address | M rs . Baden Powell | 1. …
To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869
Summary
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6932 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869 …
- … dealer) (catalogue 123) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 11 Oct 1869 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … October 11, 1869 I am very glad that you are willing to try DeCandolle’s experiment which …
- … 4, and letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 11 October 1869 . The original letter is complete …
From D. F. Nevill [11 September 1874]
Summary
Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9633 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From D. F. Nevill [11 September 1874] …
- … 172: 19 Dorothy Fanny Nevill Dangstein, Petersfield [11 Sept 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to D. F. Nevill, 11 September [1874] . …
- … In 1874, 11 September was a Friday. Nevill refers to Utricularia montana , an epiphytic …
- … to D. F. Nevill, 7 September 1874 and 11 September [1874] and n. 2. Utricularia montana …
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 March 1869
Summary
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6655 |
Matches: 5 hits
To John Scott 12 April [1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B59, B77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4084 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … auricula (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). To investigate the cause of …
- … their expansion (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). See letter from James …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
- … Letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863]. CD wrote a draft of the section of Variation …
- … 191; see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Scott’s observations on self- …
- … 22 September 1862 ( ibid. ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 13. …
- … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and nn. 16–17. CD subsequently discussed …
- … 1854a). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April 1863 and n. 19. See letter to Daniel …
- … April 1863] . See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 25. Hermann Crüger …
- … 1863 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n. 30. In Orchids , p. 324 …
- … letter to John Scott, 24 March [ 1863] , and letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . …
- … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . In his letter to CD of 23 February 1863, …
- … had suggested (see letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ) that the pollen-tubes …
- … tubes. As he explained in his letter of [1–11] April [1863], Scott believed that the …
To the Spectator 11 January 1873
Summary
Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Spectator |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8731 |
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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Haeckel. The German zoologist had written to Darwin on 11 January 1866 , ‘Every time I succeed in …
- … (Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 ). Darwin wished to establish …
- … diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 May – 11 June 1866] ). On examining more specimens later …
- … ‘I am glad to hear from Spencer’, Huxley wrote on 11 November , ‘that you are on the right (that …
