From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1879?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Apr 1879
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006)
Summary:
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 or 22] Oct 1848
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Ronald T. Raines (private collection)
Summary:
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[28 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 40/20)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (July 1986)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Aug 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Oct 1880
Source of text:
Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 15)
Summary:
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:
Refers correspondent to Descent for some information on marriage arrangements, and on the mental and moral nature of monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 94
Summary:
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 July [1881?]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?)
Summary:
Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Aug [1880?]
Source of text:
Harvard University, Department of Psychology
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project