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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD’s criticism.
Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Would like Price’s address.
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
Asks CD to do an experiment for him.
Has found a curious stone in his fire.
Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Carlyle hoped CD had not been annoyed by that forged letter, which was the reverse of his opinion. [Enclosed is a published extract, said to be taken from a Thomas Carlyle letter, which denies CD’s intellect and regrets his influence.]
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Discusses the division of R. W. Darwin’s estate.
Share dealings.
Wishes EAD to sign some road bonds and then forward them to CD so that they may be paid off. [EAD note to CD enclosed, saying he does not know where the money will go.]
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
