Search: Darwin, C. R. in correspondent 
Sotheby's (dealers) in repository 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–20 of 66 items

DCP-LETT-10012F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Wendland
Date:
7 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007)
Summary:

Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
30 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10038F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
4 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 October 1962)
Summary:

Promises to propose JJW for membership in Zoological Society.

Sympathises with JJW’s enthusiasm about the Danais and hopes it may become naturalised in this country.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
Date:
[29 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 February 1959)
Summary:

"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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Feb 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 1977)
Summary:

Thinks WB’s proposal a very good one. CD could suggest two or three subjects for essays with respect to the vegetable kingdom, but they would require a long course of experiments "& unfortunately there is hardly any one in this country who seems inclined to devote himself to experiments".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11416

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Miller (James) Grant
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (12 December 2017)
Summary:

The strongest argument for the existence of God is the intuitive feeling that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the universe; "but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy". CD is forced to leave the problem insoluble. "No man who does his duty has anything to fear, and may hope for whatever he earnestly desires."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11590

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:

Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11743F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
5 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Summary:

Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013)
Summary:

Unable to accept invitation.

Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
Date:
27 July 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 1967: 489)
Summary:

Thanks SW for text of his oration

and an [unspecified] article on parrots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
2 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (catalogue LN7755, 11 December 1997)
Summary:

Until C-FR sees the whole of Erasmus Darwin, he cannot decide if it is worth translating into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12390F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[before 4 Sept 1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Requests a list of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12537F

From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1880
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Sends details of Netter 1879 (Abraham Netter. 1879. De l’intuition dans les découvertes et inventions. Strasbourg: Treuttel & Wurtz.)

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12595J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
3 May [1880]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Requests a copy of Ray Lankester’s lecture or essay on degeneration (Lankester, E. Ray. 1880. Degeneration: A chapter in Darwinism. London: Macmillan.).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13151F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Bok
Date:
10 May 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2011)
Summary:

Sends autograph. Hopes collecting will lead Bok to science, as it did him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13317A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988)
Summary:

Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
8 July [1850]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2010)
Summary:

Has received plates. Gives instructions for scale and arrangement of engravings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available