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:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 151
Summary:
Left the Garibaldi at Rio de Janeiro.
Phylogeny of aphids.
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:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 106: C15
Summary:
[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 26–7
Summary:
Sends leaves of Dionaea with insect prey in them. Size of insects captured may be affected by leaves not being fully grown.
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:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 99: 62–5
Summary:
Is overwhelmed by generosity of his friends. Admits he felt morally beaten and without energy for first time in his life. Someday wants the names of the friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B88
Summary:
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
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:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 155–6
Summary:
Charmed by Huxley’s letter of appreciation [8873].
Lady Lyell’s sudden death.
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:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 104: 223–24a
Summary:
Concern for Lady Lyell;
will clear away work and set off for holiday in June.
Sends Critiques and addresses.
A life of J. D. Forbes [by J. C. Shairp, P. J. Tait, and A. A. Reilly (1873)] suggests that THH and Tyndall conspired to keep JDF from getting the Copley Medal. THH feels obliged to correct this.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 232
Summary:
Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.
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