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DCP-LETT-7552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:

Ogle wants very much to meet JT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8383F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS JT/1/TYP/8/2654)
Summary:

If the Memorial concerning Joseph Dalton Hooker’s dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton was sent to Down, there will be a delay in its return. He has discussed the matter with Mary Catherine Stanley (Lady Derby).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8850

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 13 (EH 88205951)
Summary:

CD will write to William Spottiswoode about the fund for Huxley. CD is raising his subscription to £300. "We have done a good day’s work … [it] gives me a higher opinion of human nature than I had before, though I am not one of those who think lowly of mankind."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8856

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 14 (EH 88205952)
Summary:

Sends JT the list and amounts subscribed for Huxley. It will probably amount to £1800. He will write to Huxley and use every argument he can to make him accept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8867

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Summary:

The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954)
Summary:

Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 17 (EH 88205955)
Summary:

Sends another copy [of Huxley’s letter of thanks for holiday fund].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 18 (EH 88205956)
Summary:

It has just occurred to CD that he ought not to leave a copy of Huxley’s confidential letter in the hands of anyone. Asks JT to write to ask recipients to return the copies to CD at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8894

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 [May] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957)
Summary:

Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 33 (EH 88205971)
Summary:

Asks JT to support his nephew, Henry Parker, for election to the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958)
Summary:

CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].

Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959)
Summary:

Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960)
Summary:

Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10218

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:

Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10377

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: C20–1
Summary:

Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.

His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].

The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10381

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10382

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11774

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: C22
Summary:

Will provide the siren.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13688F

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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