From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 35
Summary:
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Newenham Hoare
Date:
18 July [1875]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (M. F. Hales Autograph Collection (Mss24497))
Summary:
Compliments JNH on the instructive tone of his sermon [‘Hospital Sunday’ preached in Chapel Royal, Dublin, 15 Nov 1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pieter Harting
Date:
18 July [1875-81]
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938)
Summary:
Sends photographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
19 July [1875–81]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for explanation. Will follow RBL’s instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1875
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B121-122
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 257
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 284-285]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July [1875]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 148: 271
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 33
Summary:
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 July] 1875
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:
A poem on Insectivorous Plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 456
Summary:
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 July [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 332–3)
Summary:
Very glad about sales [of Insectivorous plants]. CD had hard work to persuade Murray to increase printing to 1250 copies, but owns he thought that number would last for eternity. U. S. publication and French, German, and Russian translations in the offing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 29
Summary:
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 457
Summary:
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 240/1
Summary:
Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
28 July 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318)
Summary:
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 459
Summary:
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 460
Summary:
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Weir, J. J.7
- Cooke, R. F.5
- John Murray5
- Tait, Lawson5
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Romanes, G. J.4
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.4
- Hildebrand, Friedrich3
- Nevill, D. F.3
- Walpole, D. F.3
- Berkeley, M. J.2
- Chambers, Annie2
- Dowie, Annie2
- Farrer, T. H.2
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften2
- Masters, M. T.2
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- William Clowes & Sons2
- Baynes, T. S.1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Burdon Sanderson, J. S.1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Canestrini, Giovanni1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Fayrer, Joseph1
- Fitzgerald, R. D.1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Harting, Pieter1
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Hoare, J. N.1
- Hordern, E. F.1
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Litchfield, R. B.1
- Lubbock, E. F.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Paget, James1
- Papé, Charlotte1
- Riemann, Rudolf1
- Russell, Mr1
- Rütimeyer, Ludwig1
- Sachs, Julius1
- Seidlitz, Georg von1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Unidentified1
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society3
- Bibliotek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden1
- Bonhams (dealers)1
- Boston Public Library1
- Cambridge University Library50
- EAC Gallery (dealers)1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- James Lowe Autographs (dealer)1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Lubbock family (private collection)1
- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond2
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections1
- Venator and Hanstein (dealers)2
- Zoologische Staatssammlung1
- FEWER