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To ?   [1870s?]

Summary

Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  [1870s?]
Classmark:  The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7088F

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  • … 1879 ( Correspondence vol. 22, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 [ …

To Albert Günther   16 January [1870]

Summary

Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  16 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7080

Matches: 3 hits

  • … coming here next Saturday Jan.  22 d to dine, & to stay till …
  • … and Albert Günther on 22 January (see n.  2, below). …
  • … and Swinhoe came to Down on 22 January and Joseph Dalton …

From Alfred Russel Wallace   22 January 1870

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Summary

Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 106: B90–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7085

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  • … From Alfred Russel Wallace   22 January 1870 …
  • … London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9 22 Jan 1870 Charles Robert …

To A. R. Wallace   26 January [1870]

Summary

Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  26 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7086

Matches: 3 hits

  • … letter from A.  R.  Wallace, 22 January 1870 . CD refers to …
  • … letter from A.  R.  Wallace, 22 January 1870) . See letter …
  • … from A.  R.  Wallace, 22 January 1870  and n.  2; CD refers …

From Robert Swinhoe   2 February 1870

Summary

Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.

RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.

Author:  Robert Swinhoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Feb 1870
Classmark:  DAR 177: 333
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7095

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  • … Alfred Newton , and Swinhoe came to Down on 22 January 1870. …
  • … Swinhoe had visited Down from 22 to 24 January 1870 ( Emma …

From Alfred Newton   11 February 1870

Summary

Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.

He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.

Author:  Alfred Newton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Feb 1870
Classmark:  DAR 172: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7103

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Hooker visited Down between 22 and 24 January 1870 ( Emma …

To W. T. Preyer   17 February [1870]

Summary

Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.

Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:  17 Feb [1870]
Classmark:  Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7112

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  • … 5, letter to W.  D.  Fox, 22 [July 1855] ). He had also been …

To Robert Garner   22 February [1870–1]

Summary

Thanks for sending him a hybrid.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Garner
Date:  22 Feb [1870-1]
Classmark:  University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7115F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To Robert Garner   22 February [1870–1] …
  • … bound into Garner 1844 ) Charles Robert Darwin 22 Feb [ …
  • … 1870] 22 Feb [1871] Down Robert Garner …
  • … Beckenham | Kent. S.E. Feb 22 d Dear Sir I am much obliged …

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

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  • … To V.  O.  Kovalevsky   22 February [1870] …
  • … 1953) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Feb [1870] Vladimir …
  • … Beckenham. | Kent. S.E. Feb.  22 d My dear Sir I received a …

From John Lubbock   27 February [1870]

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Summary

Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Feb [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 80: 166–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7118

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  • … singing of birds. [Read 22 April and 6 and 13 May 1773. ] …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   28 February [1870]

Summary

Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.

The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Feb [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7121

Matches: 1 hit

  • … to V.  O.  Kovalevsky, 22 February [1870] . Kovalevsky’s …

From George Henslow   3 March 1870

Summary

Experiments with Lapageria.

Author:  George Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 166: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7126

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  • … letter from George Henslow, 22 November 1869 . Mr H.  may be …
  • … letter from George Henslow, 22 November 1869 . Metropolitan …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … the drawing and discussed the feature in Descent 1: 22–3. …

From James Crichton-Browne   15 March 1870

Summary

Thanks CD for copy of Origin.

Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7134

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  • … James Crichton-Browne, 22 May 1869 ). For CD and Crichton- …

From Francis Galton   17 March 1870

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Summary

Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 105: 7–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7139

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  • … 1871 , p.  396). Galton next wrote on Tuesday 22 March 1870. …

From Francis Galton   22 March 1870

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Summary

Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 105: 9–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7143

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  • … From Francis Galton   22 March 1870 …
  • … London, Rutland Gate, 42 22 Mar 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 42 Rutland Gate. S.W. March 22. 1870 My dear Darwin Another …

To Frances Power Cobbe   23 March [1870?]

Summary

Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.

Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frances Power Cobbe
Date:  23 Mar [1870?]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7145

Matches: 1 hit

  • … this book in Descent 1: 92 n.  22. In 1870, 23 March was a …

From Fritz Müller   29 March 1870

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Summary

His observations on mimicry in butterflies

and self-sterility in plants.

Author:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 76: B36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7150

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 16, letters from Fritz Müller , 22 April 1868 , 9 September  …

From Francis Galton   31 March 1870

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Better news about the rabbits.

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 105: 11–12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7156

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  • … March 1870  and n.  2, and 22 March 1870 . CD may have sent …

From William Winwood Reade   [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]

Summary

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [8 or 9] Apr 1870
Classmark:  DAR 176: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7069

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  • … and 4 fascicules of vol. 22 (A–Leyris d’Esponchès) to date. …
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