From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Glenbow Museum
Summary:
Is "almost certain" plant is Menispermum canadense.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Summary:
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Aug [1861-8]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M)
Summary:
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
J. David Archibald (private collection)
Summary:
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Sept [1871-81]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005)
Summary:
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Nov [1871–81]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993)
Summary:
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May [1871]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109)
Summary:
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid
Summary:
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839–82]
Source of text:
Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022)
Summary:
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 34–5
Summary:
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1858?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34)
Summary:
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 206 (Letters)
Summary:
Questions about stripes on mules.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
