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DCP-LETT-12252

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:

Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12253

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 93
Summary:

Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12254

From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 64
Summary:

Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12255

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 310
Summary:

The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12256

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 22
Summary:

How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12256A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898)
Summary:

Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12257

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 8
Summary:

DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12259

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].

Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12260

From:
Emily Alston; Emily Beke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 125
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12260A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]

and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:

Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12262

From:
George Sim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 163
Summary:

Describes cow with three toes

and a woman with two functional nipples on left breast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12263

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 129–30
Summary:

Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12264

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B41–2
Summary:

Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.

Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.

Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].

Remarks on progress of Japan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
Summary:

Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12267F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sim
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Aberdeen City Libraries, Local Studies (George Sim papers)
Summary:

Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12268

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 97
Summary:

Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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