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DCP-LETT-11448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
27 Mar 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 45)
Summary:

Thanks FM for letter of 22 Feb [not found] on Lepidoptera. Will send it to Entomological Society to be read. FM’s earlier letters produced best discussions of the season.

Thanks for seeds of Viola.

He and Francis [Darwin] are at work on biology of seedling plants and wish to observe how the flowers penetrate the earth.

The Pontederia did not germinate, probably pressed too much [in post].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 46)
Summary:

Has forwarded FM’s letter to Raphael Meldola.

Thanks for information on Mimosa.

Would like to know how Cassia behaves in the rain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
24 July 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 47)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds

and information about earthworms.

Is working hard at movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11915

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albin Gaertner
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4312/2)
Summary:

Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:

Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

Invites FG to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7124

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2)
Summary:

Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32)
Summary:

Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].

Pangenesis.

Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.

CD working on book on man and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 [July 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
Summary:

CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)
Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7293A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120)
Summary:

Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 33)
Summary:

Mimicry in Lepidoptera.

Sexual selection.

The Franco-Prussian war.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7359F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Worthington George Smith
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 54224: 196)
Summary:

Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.

Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."

Contributor:
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