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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
BJS was pleased to see CD’s son [William] and his wife at Charles Langton’s.
His own son is preparing for marriage.
Reports meeting a former Beagle shipmate.
Thanks JVC for a correction [for 3d German edition of Variation]. He is the most accurate translator that ever lived.
Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.
Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.
Informs CD of his work on the "unity of language in its development".
Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
"If you finally succeed in proving that all languages have been developed from a common root, you will indeed have effected a most valuable piece of work."
Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
Reports, as treasurer, on the financial position of the Club.
Thanks CD for his specimen of "self-containedness". Some of the bromeliads will flower under similar treatment, but MTM does not know whether they seed.
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Sends corrected sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. How many copies will be printed? Asks whether he is correct in thinking that he has not been paid for the July printing.
Plans to correct Forms of flowers when new edition is needed.
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
Offers to sell CD a portrait of Dr Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
