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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
28 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113)
Summary:

Has signed certificates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/114)
Summary:

His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
3 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115)
Summary:

Discusses spider specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
4 May [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a)
Summary:

Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/15/112)
Summary:

Sends MS about pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
1 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
22 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
22 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/21/105)
Summary:

Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Sends his photograph.

Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339)
Summary:

Thanks AG for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15
Summary:

Sends a list of queries for AG.

Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Is "astonished & deeply grieved" at loss [of AG’s wife].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for full answers to queries.

Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
13 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
16 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project