From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 7
Summary:
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Summary:
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
21 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 7 (EH 88205924)
Summary:
Writes of his extreme interest in WBC’s article ["On the hereditary transmission of acquired psychical habits", Contemp. Rev. 21 (1873): 779–95].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 295)
Summary:
Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a holiday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 297)
Summary:
Affected by THH’s letter – will send a copy to the other 17 friends. Hopes for his and public’s sake his health will improve.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift
Date:
[25 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 71
Summary:
A circular letter forwarding to subscribers a copy of Huxley’s letter of thanks [8873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954)
Summary:
Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 17 (EH 88205955)
Summary:
Sends another copy [of Huxley’s letter of thanks for holiday fund].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 18 (EH 88205956)
Summary:
It has just occurred to CD that he ought not to leave a copy of Huxley’s confidential letter in the hands of anyone. Asks JT to write to ask recipients to return the copies to CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 395
Summary:
Encloses note from J. T. Moggridge commenting on JDH’s letter ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6)
Summary:
Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
Summary:
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
28 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2)
Summary:
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299)
Summary:
Lady Lyell’s death.
Sends names of donors of gift to THH.
The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (26 April 1984)
Summary:
"I was born in the town of Shrewsbury Feb. 12, 1809."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
3 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 309)
Summary:
Thanks for present of
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016)
Summary:
Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.
CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Tyndall, John6
- Darwin, Francis3
- Huxley, T. H.3
- Hague, J. D.2
- Lyell, Charles2
- Nature2
- Blomefield, Leonard1
- Butler, Samuel (b)1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Cupples, George1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Davidson, Thomas1
- Doedes, N. D.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Günther, Albert1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Jenkin, H. C. F.1
- Jenyns, Leonard1
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Merriam, A. W.1
- Reuter, Adolf1
- Spottiswoode, William1
- Subscribers to T. H. Huxley gift1
- Unidentified1