From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 146: 13
Summary:
Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
[1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 48
Summary:
Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
1 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 22
Summary:
Sends a copy of Expression
and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 23
Summary:
Thanks SH for news of her family. Would like her to visit Down in the spring.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:
Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.
On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Smith
Date:
[after 19 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189r
Summary:
Thanks for Louisville Courier Journal.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 288
Summary:
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 4 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 70
Summary:
Thanks for information about the Atropia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
7 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 289
Summary:
Comments on additional printing of Expression. Complains about poor quality of plates.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 416
Summary:
Mentions publication of Expression.
Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.
Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
8 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:
CD is grateful for the eulogy in Index [no. 104]. Many would disagree. It is the fashion to say he is a good observer with "an utterly illogical mind".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
11 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Jan 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 272–3)
Summary:
Requests that JM make stereotype plates of 6th edition of Origin available to D. Appleton. This will be last edition and CD is "extremely anxious" to spread his views.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
11 May [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library Günther 44)
Summary:
Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].
Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?
Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Denny
Date:
9 July 1872
Source of text:
University of Otago Library, Special Collections (DeB MS 55)
Summary:
Has read JD’s articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1872): 872, 904–5].
Questions him on the fertility of certain varieties of Pelargonium which are fertile with some varieties but infertile with others.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998)
Summary:
Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
16 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 291)
Summary:
Wants to make a present to her on the move to a new house.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Smith Craig
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
University of Aberdeen Library, Special Collections (MS 2289)
Summary:
Cannot accept honour of nomination as Lord Rector [of Aberdeen University].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
4 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:
If decapod does not pass through zoea stage, is this acceleration? If hypothetical adult retained zoea characters, would this be retardation? Believes obliteration of growth stages frequently due to natural selection. Most interesting points in AH’s letter deal with senile characters. CD attributes them to laws of growth not selection. Explains degraded characters as result of readaptation to simpler conditions. Believes no innate tendency to progressive development exists.
Hopes AH visits F. Hilgendorf’s famous deposit [at Steinheim]. A. Weismann [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)] makes good use of Hilgendorf’s observations.
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Author
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- Cambridge University Library
- Aberdeen University Library1
- Harvard University Archives1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums1
- Maryland Historical Society1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Special Collections, Library, University of Otago1
- Waddington Auction (dealers)1