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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.
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
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".
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
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.
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.