From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 54
Summary:
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44)
Summary:
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pieter Harting
Date:
21 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Utrecht University Museum (inv. nr. 635/202.06.1451)
Summary:
Thanks PH for his memoir on Poterion [Natuurkd. Verh. Utrecht 2 (1870)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 190–192
Summary:
Asks name of an Abutilon from Fritz Müller.
Questions about Drosophyllum for experiments;
the meaning of "Sirdar".
Wonderful success of Descent. Astonished by liberality of public. No abuse yet.
Marvels at JDH’s plans for a trip to Morocco. Asks him to look for alpine insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Mar 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 252)
Summary:
Is astonished at sale [of Descent]. Will make no additions, but must correct a few misprints and errors [for third issue].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 348
Summary:
Comments on WRG’s MS on ratio of the sexes at birth.
Offers to send J. M. A. Thury’s paper ["Loi de production des sexes", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 18 (1863): 91–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
1871-3-21[?]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #63
Summary:
Reiterates his congratulations to AQ for his work on statistics. Believes AQ will have many readers. Mentions that JH is now eighty years old.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
21 March 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.608, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs his wife Frances Hooker, that he is on a steamer from Tangiers to Mogadore [Essaouira] & will send this letter by means of a passing vessel going in the opposite direction to Marseille. The boat they are on is good one but the sea is rough & he & his companion [George] Maw are suffering with sea sickness & lack of appetite but [John] Ball is unaffected. JDH send his regards to all at Pendock, & expresses an intention to write to the 'President of the Wanderers' there [Reverend William Samuel Symonds] if he can remember how to spell his surname. They lay off the coast near Rabat earlier in the day but were unable to communicate with the town. There is a Frenchman on board trying to cure his sea sickness by holding lemon-halves on his temples. Sir. J. Hay has informed them that everything is ready for their trip but JDH is anxious to get to Mogadore & make plans, he thinks the trip may take longer than previously predicted. Mr White the consul at Tangier was a pupil of JDH's Uncle, Reverend William Jacobson, at Oxford University & send his regards along with the gift of cup made from Fez earthenware. JDH has met with a Mr Cardwell, a nephew of the War Minister [Edward Cardwell], who is travelling aimlessly. JDH gives some instruction for Mr [John] Smith regarding care of bulbs. [Edward] Crump is a good man, also currently sea sick.
Contributor:
Hooker Project