From F. E. Abbot 3 March 1874
Summary
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9332 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Review , Contemporary Review ) and people ( John Lubbock , Edward Burnett Tylor , Herbert …
From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
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- … Milk but I do not know of any other people who do so. Rennet is principally used …
From R. F. Albrecht 16 March 1870
Summary
Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.
Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.
Author: | R. F. Albrecht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7136 |
From R. E. Alison 25 June 1835
Summary
Gives details of his observations which lend support to the view that Chile is rising with respect to the sea. Reports some observations and opinions with regard to earthquakes and volcanic action in the area.
Author: | Robert Edward Alison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 36.1: 427–427a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-277 |
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 |
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- … in weather like an English July. As a rule, people who come here suffering as I do, do not …
From J. L. Ambrose 15 February 1882
Author: | James L. Ambrose |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13688 |
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- … collection of letters from distinguished people you signed yourself “Your well-wisher”— …
From Thomas Gold Appleton 24 April [1862]
Summary
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3517 |
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- … sap” to send the no longer very young people I fear. It will remind them of long ago, and …
From G. M. Asher 7 November 1877
Summary
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.
Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11228 |
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- … advantages of being a very cleanly sort of people; and as I lived two years among them I …
From John James Aubertin 27 April 1863
Summary
Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;
describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.
Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4129 |
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- … view. Here, on the other hand this weak people let him in every where—even petting him—& …
From J. T. Austen 3 June 1863
Summary
Does not think Dennen’s transaction was dishonest, but can see no satisfactory explanation for it; feels they must inform their fellow trustees.
Author: | John Thomas Austen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 131, 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4201 |
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- … plainly to Dennen. I have told him that people do not borrow money at 10 per cent unless …
From C. F. Austin February 1879
Summary
Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;
relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.
Author: | Coe Finch Austin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11853 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … it: and knowing the stupidity of country people
〈 gen〉 erally I did not wonder at it. And I …
From W. E. A. Axon 17 August 1880
Summary
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
Author: | William Edward Armytage Axon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12690 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … hand, the Gauchos are a very active people, and live almost entirely on flesh. Further, it …
From Charles Cardale Babington 18 May 1864
Summary
Glad to hear CD well again.
Will send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know where to find wild specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type.
Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as garden type. Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people. …
From William Balfour Baikie 11 February 1858
Summary
Describes some species of fauna peculiar to Fernando Po. The ocean currents make it unlikely that animals have been floated to the little islands [off the west coast of Africa].
Author: | William Balfour Baikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2214 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … an indigenous population, a very peculiar people, in appearance, in habits, & in language— …
From W. W. Bailey 28 September 1877
Summary
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11157 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … if not quite closed, It is known to the people as “box-gentian” for this reason, Two …
From F. M. Balfour 11 November 1873
Summary
Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9138 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … therefore feels unable to ask other people to do so— Though I feel that it is hardly my …
From John Ball 31 January [1872]
Summary
Expands on a letter to Nature concerning the probability of the survival of a new variety in a given species. Differs with [F. Jenkin’s] argument, to which CD had agreed to a greater extent than JB feels it deserved.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 196–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8190 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to lead to an opposite result most people would say ‘so much the worse for mathematics. ’ …
From H. H. Bancroft 3 August 1874
Summary
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Author: | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9581 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … literary workshop employing up to fifty people at a time ( ANB ). Bancroft presumably sent …
From Mary Elizabeth Barber [after February 1867]
Summary
Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.
Author: | Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5745 |
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