From James Grant 16 March 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind reply. JG does not feel he can rely on instinct or "intuition" in relation to existence of God. Is there no analogy between natural organisations and mechanical constructions to justify an intelligent first cause?
Author: | James Miller (James) Grant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11428 |
To James Grant 11 March 1878
Summary
The strongest argument for the existence of God is the intuitive feeling that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the universe; "but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy". CD is forced to leave the problem insoluble. "No man who does his duty has anything to fear, and may hope for whatever he earnestly desires."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Miller (James) Grant |
Date: | 11 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (12 December 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11416 |
From James Torbitt 24 March 1878
Summary
Sales of [potato] varieties have reduced amount of money needed [for experiments].
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11440 |
From James Caird 21 March 1878
Summary
Success of James Torbitt’s potato experiments so far does not warrant an application for Government aid.
Author: | James Caird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11437 |
From Grant Allen 19 February [1881]
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13057 |
To James Torbitt 6 March 1880
Summary
Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 6 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12520 |
From James Torbitt 28 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter. Prepared to continue experiments if aided. Thinks of distributing new [potato] varieties. Believes seeds should be planted this spring.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 484 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11382 |
From James Torbitt 6 March 1878
Summary
Problems of continuing with his crossing experiments; financial help from CD.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11403 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
From James Torbitt 26 June 1878
Summary
Progress of experiments. Wants CD’s advice on best way to cross-fertilise his plants.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11568 |
To T. H. Farrer 23 October 1879
Summary
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268 |
From James Geikie 15 December 1881
Author: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13552 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [17 May 1842]
Summary
Gives instructions for sending out copies of Coral reefs to various journals. Discusses the complimentary copies which have already been sent out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [17 May 1842] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 December 1988); Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (April 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629A |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January 1879
Summary
It will give CD real pleasure to propose HWB for F.R.S. Asks that he send him the necessary information for the certificate as well as a list of men he would like to sign it. He should not be disappointed if not elected first time. [Bates elected F.R.S. 2 June 1881.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan 1879 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11848 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from H. W. Bates, 25 January 1879 ). Bates was proposed for election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London on 27 January 1879 by CD, Philip Lutley Sclater , Francis Galton , George Rolleston , William Henry Flower , Henry Tibbats Stainton , Robert McLachlan , St George Jackson Mivart , James Augustus Grant , …
From Grant Allen to G. J. Romanes 28 January 1880
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 28 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: A46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440F |
From H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen 10 January 1881
Summary
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13003 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … grant, my Father’s letter to him of Jan 3 rd . 1880, in which he states that there has been a blunder & that if there should be a second edition this shall be altered, removes all reasonable ground of complaint: Butler has himself made this letter public not only in Op. 5 but also in the Athenæum & in the St James …
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878]
Summary
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412F |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … James William Colvile , advocate-general in Calcutta. Lawrence Peel , chief-justice of Calcutta. John McClelland of the Bengal Medical Service, who was in charge of the Calcutta botanic gardens from 1846 to 1848. A light litter for one, with a box borne on poles carried on the shoulders of four or six men. George Eden , Earl of Auckland, was instrumental in obtaining a Treasury grant for Hooker’s expedition to India, see letter …
letter | (21) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Torbitt, James | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Caird, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Torbitt, James | (5) |
Allen, Grant | (2) |
Grant, James | (2) |