To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To ? [1870–82]
Summary
Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 63: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13885 |
To ? 12 February [1870–82]
Summary
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 Feb [1870-82] |
Classmark: | Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6611F |
To ? 17 November [1870]
Summary
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993F |
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 |
To ? 23 March [1870–1]
Summary
Declines offer of book on physics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Mar [1870-1] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7147 |
To ? 14 June [1870]
Summary
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7233 |
To ? 28 December [1870]
Summary
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402F |
From John Michels 3 May 1870
Summary
Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10495 |
From E. A. Darwin [1870–81]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870–81] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379 |
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 Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From St G. J. Mivart [25 June 1870?]
Summary
Sets a time for CD to call.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5927 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 January 1870]
Summary
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520F |
From Gilbert William Child 26 January [1870]
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6579 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
To Alexander Agassiz [23 October 1870?]
Summary
Suggests time for AA to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | [23 Oct 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6595 |
From G. W. Child 16 February [1870]
Summary
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6617 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
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