From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sleigh
Date:
[before 26 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 93
Summary:
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 107
Summary:
Has seen newspaper accounts of JT’s potato experiments. T. H. Farrer wants to know whether JT has published any account of them, and how much assistance he needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
3 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 98
Summary:
Has written to Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 108
Summary:
Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
8 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 60
Summary:
Discusses the marriage-settlement for Horace and Ida.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 99
Summary:
Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 109
Summary:
Describes problems of raising money [for potato experiments]. "A Government official in another office remarked to me that it was very difficult for Ministers to decide what to do in such cases as they must be prepared for mere cavillers in the H[ouse] of Commons."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 180
Summary:
Discusses possibility of Government pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 181
Summary:
Has discussed with Hooker possibility of Government pension for Wallace. Hooker is pessimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
27 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 110
Summary:
Glad to hear about vines.
Hopes JT will be able to continue work without Government aid. "It is enough to sicken one to see how politicians waste their time squabbling and neglect doing any good."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
30 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 368
Summary:
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
16 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Mar 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD agrees to subscribe to reprint of Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219
Summary:
Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.
The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.
Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fordyce
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Believes it absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and evolutionist; gives the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards CD’s own views, his judgement often fluctuates but "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God". Thinks that "generally (and more and more as I grow older) … an Agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (1977); DAR 153: 101
Summary:
Encloses a family document [another letter from F. S. Darwin to R. W. Darwin?].
Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about their grandfather and a highway robber.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Alfred Pitman; Royal College of Physicians
Date:
17 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D11)
Summary:
Asks for directions on how to behave at ceremony conferring the Baly Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Document type
Repository
- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Huntington Library1
- Kobunso (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller)1
- Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers), Crewkerne1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal College of Physicians of London1