From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 171
Summary:
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Contributor:
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From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 255
Summary:
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 17 (EH 88205915)
Summary:
Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.
Contributor:
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 25
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 102
Summary:
[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.
Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".
Contributor:
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From:
Frances J. Hough; Frances J. Myers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 526
Summary:
Gives an account of the Syracuse Botanical Club and its activities.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 172
Summary:
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 203
Summary:
Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.
AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B152–3
Summary:
Further information about the pension with particular thanks to CD for his role.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Summary:
Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 173
Summary:
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36212)
Summary:
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Contributor:
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