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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.490)
Summary:
Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
29 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 64)
Summary:
Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
29 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 36
Summary:
Sends Thiselton-Dyer’s suggestions for references to Nepenthes,
and gives his opinion on what will influence the Royal Society’s Council in considering RLT’s candidacy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01)
Summary:
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 10
Summary:
CD has just had an interview with Edward Frankland, who "almost laughs" at FD’s idea of getting potash and soda out of the soil by treating it with sulphuric acid. Asks FD to send him a soil sample to give to Frankland. Sends enclosures giving address and labels for soil samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:
JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624)
Summary:
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks for information he needs for the German translation [of Coral reefs], including correct titles of reference books and the name of a voyager.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
6 Apr [1876-82]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Received Darlingtonia; cannot explain its fructification.
Declines invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project