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DCP-LETT-12782

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 [Oct 1880]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/30)
Summary:

Invites FG to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13078

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/31)
Summary:

Discusses dead earthworms on surface of ground after rainfall.

Describes experiments involving sensitivity of earthworms to light and how it reflects on their intelligence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 May [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/32)
Summary:

Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2)
Summary:

Can FG call on Monday evening?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/33)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

Invites FG to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
24 July [1853]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1)
Summary:

FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.

Describes his health and life at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1554F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.

Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/3)
Summary:

Thanks FG for book [The art of travel (1855)].

Is looking for a house in London for a month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
28 May [1854]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/2)
Summary:

Discusses how Fuegians and other primitive peoples light fires.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 July [1857]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/27)
Summary:

Encloses signed document.

"Much interested about all domestic animals of all savage nations."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].

Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.

Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2799

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 May [1860]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6)
Summary:

Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Feb [1856]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/4)
Summary:

Can FG use his influence with Rev. [Erhardt] to get information about domesticated poultry in Africa for CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5800

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Jan [1868?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
Summary:

FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.

Trusts that FG is well again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/8)
Summary:

Praises FG’s book [Hereditary genius (1869)]. CD is converted by its argument. Previously CD believed men did not differ much in intellect, but only in zeal and hard work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[27 Apr 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A16v
Summary:

Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/30)
Summary:

Reports safe arrival of rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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