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DCP-LETT-8212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007)
Summary:

Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8810F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murray Humphry
Date:
14 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016)
Summary:

Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8938A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane
Date:
[after 7 June 1873]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (20–1 July 1988)
Summary:

Is obliged because of health to decline the invitation [see 8938] to make a voyage on the Admiral’s ship. "… I must rest contented with past memories …"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. C. Kemp
Date:
[26 May 1874]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers): (16 October 1978)
Summary:

There is no uniform edition of CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9790A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1875 or earlier?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989)
Summary:

Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9828G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1875-81]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9951

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Humphry Sandwith
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 May 1961)
Summary:

Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Fanny Kellogg
Date:
13 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (28 May 1981); Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (28 April 2021, lot 49)
Summary:

Sends thanks for "communicating the curious case of a habitual gesture, like that which I have treated as inherited. I may add that since I write, the action has been transmitted to another generation. Your case shall be sent to Mr Galton, who gave me the information".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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