From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B41–2
Summary:
Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.
Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.
Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
Summary:
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 97
Summary:
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 549
Summary:
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B3–4
Summary:
Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B44–5
Summary:
Problem with Charles Reinwald could be solved if CD would ask that French edition [of Erasmus Darwin] follow English. EK willing to co-operate with Reinwald.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 121
Summary:
Asks CD to examine his idea that human and animal sociology are related, as each is based on the principle of mutual concession (derived from Schopenhauer’s law of compassion). If CD approves, he should write a note and forward it and GMA’s letter to Macmillan’s Magazine.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Schulte
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 428
Summary:
Discusses case of colour display in butterfly.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).
Contributor:
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From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 3
Summary:
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
Contributor:
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From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 65
Summary:
Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 94
Summary:
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 335
Summary:
Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
Contributor:
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