From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[14 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:
Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Erik Södling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 216
Summary:
Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:
Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103)
Summary:
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 518
Summary:
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:
Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 85
Summary:
WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 519
Summary:
Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 260
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 520
Summary:
Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 31
Summary:
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A108
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Walbank Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 7
Summary:
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 14
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project