From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter , 22 April 1876, p. 2
Summary:
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:
Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25))
Summary:
J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A41–2
Summary:
The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 94
Summary:
Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.
Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44)
Summary:
Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.
Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.
Returns extracts.
Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.
CD now working on plants;
doubts he will ever return to working on man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162)
Summary:
Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Summary:
Discussing a reprint of South America.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153)
Summary:
Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.
All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 202: 84
Summary:
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 407
Summary:
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Edmund Harting
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (2 October 2019, lot 259)
Summary:
Thanks for the offer of JEH’s manuscript notes, but he is not planning to work on the subject again.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.488)
Summary:
Trip to London delayed.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 62–3)
Summary:
Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 52
Summary:
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.489)
Summary:
Will call tomorrow morning.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 51
Summary:
Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Requests permission to call upon EF any morning from Saturday through Tuesday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Enrique Godínez y Esteban (Enrique Godínez)
Date:
28 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Godínez trans. 1877, p. VIII
Summary:
Gives permission for a Spanish translation of the Origin and wishes it success.
Contributor:
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- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Francis18
- Hooker, J. D.13
- Unidentified11
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- Carus, J. V.9
- Darwin, G. H.9
- Romanes, G. J.8
- Tait, Lawson8
- Darwin, W. E.7
- Gray, Asa7
- Haeckel, Ernst6
- Torbitt, James6
- Frankland, Edward4
- Marshall, W. C.4
- Smith, Elder & Co4
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- Wallace, A. R.3
- Wallace, Alfred Russel3
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