From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 10
Summary:
Speaks of the delight of having met CD.
Hopes William Darwin may be able to visit Worthing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 156–7
Summary:
Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].
Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
31 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 83
Summary:
Sends a letter [missing] on the chance that GHD might give the writer information about tides.
Rejoices at GHD’s friendship with Sir W. Thomson and grand vein of research he has struck on.
First draft of life of Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] is nearly finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 29 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 13
Summary:
Try to find and read [a German] account of the fir-trees affected by some fungus which produces upright shoots. CD wants to know whether the case is same as what he has observed in the silver fir. Includes diagram.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fordyce
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Believes it absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and evolutionist; gives the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards CD’s own views, his judgement often fluctuates but "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God". Thinks that "generally (and more and more as I grow older) … an Agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 233
Summary:
Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (1977); DAR 153: 101
Summary:
Encloses a family document [another letter from F. S. Darwin to R. W. Darwin?].
Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about their grandfather and a highway robber.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project