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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25))
Summary:

J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Summary:

Discussing a reprint of South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
15 May 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.26–30 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.26–27, letter ff.28–29, address envelope f.30))
Summary:

Discusses corrections and illustrations [for Volcanic islands and parts of South America, 2d ed. (1876)].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Summary:

Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".

Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10521)
Summary:

Gives permission to copy figures from Insectivorous plants for article in Encyclopaedia Britannica [by PG, 9th ed., vol. 13, pp. 134–40].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10521)
Summary:

PG’s article in Encyclopaedia Britannica wonderfully well done ["Insectivorous plants", 9th ed., 13: 134–40].

Admires PG’s researches on chlorophyll in animal kingdom ["Observations on the physiology and histology of Convoluta Schultzii", Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. 28 (1878–9): 449–57].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brown
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6289/23)
Summary:

Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
26 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Testimonials of Adam White, F.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum [1854], p. 15 (National Library of Scotland, 3.2043(6))
Summary:

Testimonial letter expressing CD’s high opinion of AW’s zoological attainments.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS. 5406, ff. 167–8)
Summary:

Has read TFJ’s letter on Glen Roy. His arguments seem conclusive. CD gives up the ghost. "My paper is one long gigantic blunder." How rash it is "to argue that because a case is not one thing it must be some second thing which happens to be known to the writer".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
13 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.2216:167)
Summary:

Sends condolences on death of LH’s wife. Recalls many pleasant hours in Bedford Place. He and Emma thank LH for sending the memorial paper.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
13 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:

It would be a pleasure to see "the first enunciator of the theory of Natural Selection" but his health makes it impossible. Hopes to come to London soon and would like to arrange an interview with PM if he is staying more than a week.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241))
Summary:

His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
14 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.1-5 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.1-2, letter ff.3-4, address envelope f.5))
Summary:

Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.

Contributor:
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From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1863
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:1)
Summary:

Sum due to CD is £11 13s 1d. Offer £5 for remaining stock of South America and Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.6-10 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.6-7, letter ff.8-9, address envelope f.10))
Summary:

Accepts offer of £5 [for remaining stock of Geology of "Beagle"].

Orders postage stamps for son.

Contributor:
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From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1863
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:6v)
Summary:

Cheque for books, stamps for CD’s son.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.11-15 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.11-12, letter ff.13-14, address envelope f.15))
Summary:

Receipt for cheque enclosed.

Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:

CD is too ill to write.

As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 30–1)
Summary:

Asks if he should give the clichés of Variation to E. Schweizerbart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dudley Campbell
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.5509:92)
Summary:

Sends cheque for £5 as subscription to Westminster Review.

Contributor:
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