From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
18 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 247
Summary:
Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[14 November 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 250
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 November 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 251
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[23 November 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 252
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[28 November 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 253
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Clowes & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 180
Summary:
Explains delay in printing proofs [of Movement in plants?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2[5] Nov 188[0]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11b
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 27
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crier
Date:
Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 37
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to Great Western Railway Company stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Denison Roebuck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 130
Summary:
Sends the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s publications prior to the visit to Down of its deputation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 510
Summary:
If every copy [of Movement in plants] is sold at 15s, CD will lose about £50.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Florence Caroline (Florence) Douglas; Florence Caroline (Florence) Dixie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 183
Summary:
Thanks CD for his reply to her letter.
Offers to send him a copy of her book on her expedition to Patagonia [Across Patagonia (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 511
Summary:
Six hundred copies of Movement in plants were wanted [at Murray’s annual sale] – a good start.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 106
Summary:
He has observed several instances of animals’ tails lying to the left in rigor mortis. Is this a general rule?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 370
Summary:
Has spoken to Wallace to see if reluctant to accept a Government pension. He would accept if CD and Huxley believe it justified. Encloses details of Wallace’s efforts to obtain a position as naturalist and his claims for a pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B145–8
Summary:
Response to CD’s notes [on Island life]:
1. On relation of paucity of fossils to coldness of water;
2. Cessation of the glacial period;
3. Rate of deposit and geological time;
4. The importance of preoccupation (by plants) in relation to plants arriving later.
Charge of speculative explanations is just.
Defends plausibility of migration of plants from mountain to mountain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
9 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 183
Summary:
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 512
Summary:
Movement in plants needs only the index. Distressed by CD’s dissatisfaction with the indexer.
Eight hundred copies have now been sold. Type will be kept up.
Decision on printing additional copies should await reviews.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 or 12 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 64
Summary:
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 10
Summary:
Has found three zones of stones in the Welsh and Pennine mountains which he accounts for by elevation and subsidence. Does CD think that these movements in historical times have been caused by earthquakes or by slow and gradual movements?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project