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DCP-LETT-11016F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11308A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11590

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:

Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11655

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11672

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:

Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1879?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12006F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Apr 1879
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.

Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013)
Summary:

Unable to accept invitation.

Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12268F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Ronald T. Raines (private collection)
Summary:

Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13792

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:

CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13886

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Sept [1871-81]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005)
Summary:

Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13887

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Nov [1871–81]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993)
Summary:

"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May [1871]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109)
Summary:

Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13889A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid
Summary:

[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13889B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:

Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6102A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6611F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Feb [1870-82]
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:

Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6993F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:

CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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