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DCP-LETT-8051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 134
Summary:

Thanks WED for a correction [to proofs of Origin, 6th ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 238–9)
Summary:

Agrees to stereotyping Origin [6th ed.].

Asks that 500 or 1000 more copies of Descent be printed. Will make no corrections except the number of thousands on title page. Would like to revise [Descent] if it goes on selling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8052F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 115)
Summary:

Will write to de Chaumont to ask whether anyone at Netley is able to observe shivering fits. Has not got H. Spencer essays.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8053

From:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 236
Summary:

Sends CD additions to his bibliographical list [missing].

Reports observations indicating that chimpanzees show compassion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8053F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 2, 9, 252
Summary:

Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 5
Summary:

Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8054F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41)
Summary:

Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8055

From:
Sara Sophia Hennell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 143
Summary:

Marriage is basis of all religious forms of thought, and this is the subjective equivalent of CD’s law that sex is the most important agency of universal development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8055A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
7 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
8 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University (B MS Misc.)
Summary:

CD glad to hear of success of translation of Descent.

Will not go to press with Expression for six or nine months; hopes HHHvZ will think it worth translating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8057

From:
Albert Regnard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 85
Summary:

A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
9 Nov 1871
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8260)
Summary:

Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8061

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 121–2
Summary:

Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8062

From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 116
Summary:

Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.

Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8063

From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 189
Summary:

Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 72)
Summary:

Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8065

From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 98
Summary:

Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
14 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for loan of measure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8067

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 81
Summary:

News of progress of German editions of Origin

and Descent.

Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047)
Summary:

Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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