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DCP-LETT-12619F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
16 June [1880]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9897)
Summary:

Ordering a copy of a book for his research on vegetable mould [presumably Werner Hoffmeister 1845 (Die bis jetzt bekannten Arten aus der Familie der Regenwürmer: als Grundlage zu einer Monographie dieser Familie.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12620

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 142
Summary:

CD’s portrait at exhibition is praised by critics. CD and the Prime Minister may boast of having been in their day "the best abused men in England".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12621

From:
John Henry Comstock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 217
Summary:

Summarises points of interest in his Report upon cotton insects [U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12622

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 166
Summary:

Sets out specific propositions concerning his potato varieties, which he will make to the Government, if he is given CD’s and T. H. Farrer’s support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bellyse Baildon
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12624

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 [June 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 159
Summary:

Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].

Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12625

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9)
Summary:

Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR471)
Summary:

Thanks for enclosures.

Remembers Edward Vivian.

Glad to hear of flint tools.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12627

From:
Robert Fletcher Charles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 133
Summary:

Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
11 June [1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 94
Summary:

Some essays have arrived for GHD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12628F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 June 1880
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Asks John Murray to allow R. F. Charles to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
11 June 1880
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR472)
Summary:

"The enclosed, evidently intended for you, has by a mistake been addressed to me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12632

From:
Robert Fletcher Charles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 134
Summary:

Thanks CD for writing to Murray concerning Journal of researches extracts for his reading-book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12634

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 114
Summary:

Suggests plants whose stamens show movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12635

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 167
Summary:

JT attempting to get Government backing for his experiments; wishes to quote from CD’s letter in support of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12636

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 110
Summary:

Annual report on sale of Reinwald editions of CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
16 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 121
Summary:

Offers advice concerning letter to [William Edward?] Forster requesting Government aid [for potato experiments].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 11 (EH 88205984)
Summary:

Notes on worm action, and CD’s questions concerning source of nutriment for worms in ACR’s courtyard [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12638F

From:
Ebenezer Turnbull
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 198: 209
Summary:

Information about the death of John Scott, his nephew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
18 June 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 160
Summary:

Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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