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DCP-LETT-451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[4 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 December 1976)
Summary:

Sends GRG a few pages of proofs [of Birds]. Asks him to make any observations that might occur to him and to check passages in French and Latin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5284A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
24 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986)
Summary:

Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[13–16 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979)
Summary:

Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5720A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 and 22 July 1988, pp. 212–13)
Summary:

Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[9 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1979)
Summary:

Says he is forwarding the Smith, Elder & Co. account to the Treasury. Discusses advertisements of Zoology and Coral reefs. Volcanic islands "is almost ready for press".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7168A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7617F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. L. Newall
Date:
24 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 July 2008)
Summary:

Sends his signature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
28 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236)
Summary:

Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
Summary:

Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8209F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marlborough Robert Pryor
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (15 December 2011)
Summary:

Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-821

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3–4 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

News of the children and books he is reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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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