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DCP-LETT-6595

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
[23 Oct 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 7
Summary:

Suggests time for AA to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Blore
Date:
[Oct 1870 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 82
Summary:

Horace Darwin wishes to have private tuition to help him pass the "Little Go" and so CD wonders if he might be excused College lectures for the present, to prevent undue strain.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7332

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 76
Summary:

The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.

Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.

Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7333

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 16–17)
Summary:

Sympathetic to JVC’s views on Franco-Prussian war [see 7332].

Astonished at JVC’s readiness to begin work. Will send sheets as soon as possible. Has asked Murray to charge for stereotypes of 64 woodblocks at cost. JVC must make his own agreement with publisher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7334

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 83
Summary:

Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Main
Date:
6 Oct 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384)
Summary:

Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7336

From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 178: 113
Summary:

Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7337

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wyville Thomson
Date:
10 Oct 1870
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 59)
Summary:

Testimonial letter hoping that CWT will be successful in getting Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7338

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:

Delay in sending deerhound puppy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7338F

From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 October 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 114
Summary:

Cancelled. Now enclosure to S7695.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7339

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 379
Summary:

Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.

Various publication arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18)
Summary:

Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.

Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2)
Summary:

Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7342

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 84
Summary:

Leaving England.

Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7343

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:

Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 184–5
Summary:

Does not think so poorly of Nature as JDH does, by any means; fears Popular Science Review is rather ephemeral but more durable than Nature.

The case of the charlock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7345F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Oct 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 14
Summary:

Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7346

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 6
Summary:

Sends a cheque to pay off FD’s debts. Warns him of the dangers of overspending his income and advises him strongly to keep accounts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7346F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Oct 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 20
Summary:

Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7347

From:
John Gage
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 2
Summary:

Convinced by CD’s Origin.

As a "student of spirit intercourse", he asks CD for more details about the scene of the dancing spoon in Journal of researches [p. 546].

Contributor:
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