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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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- … 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 |
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 |
From John Lubbock 27 February [1870]
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 |
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
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7139 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871 , p. 396). Galton next wrote on Tuesday 22 March 1870. …
From Francis Galton 22 March 1870
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7143 |
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
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
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7156 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and 4 fascicules of vol. 22 (A–Leyris d’Esponchès) to date. …
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (4) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |