From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 69: A12–13
Summary:
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974)
Summary:
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 1
Summary:
Urges CD to repent and seek salvation through Christ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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