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:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 113
Summary:
Sends his review of Movement in plants from Die Gartenlaube.
Comments on the future prospects of Kosmos.
Comments on review of Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory by Romanes in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7] and Romanes’ reply to Butler [pp. 335–6].
Asks whether he might have a chapter of Earthworms to print in Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11
Summary:
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 100
Summary:
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 72
Summary:
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 52: E17
Summary:
Receipt, in CD’s hand, signed by JT, acknowledging subscriptions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 198: 34
Summary:
Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 66
Summary:
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 93)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 360
Summary:
Wishes to correct impression of his attitude towards CD’s contribution: CD has successfully explained how differences arise.
Pleased CD will read his book [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Andreas Victor (Victor) Hensen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 145
Summary:
Mentions article by P. E. Müller on worms: "Structur over skovjord [forest soil]" [Tidsk. Skovbrug 3 (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 259
Summary:
Thanks CD for photograph. They are battling for same cause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Goodwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 200
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph.
WHG grew up within 200 yards of "The Mount" [Darwin residence] in Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Ballantyne Hannay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 98
Summary:
In complex molecules such as proteins, liquid and gaseous states merge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 202–3
Summary:
Would like to visit CD. Has not seen him for 40 years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 204
Summary:
Sorry to hear CD is unwell. Hopes outing [to Patterdale] will benefit him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116
Summary:
Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 75
Summary:
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Sirk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 36
Summary:
Austrian correspondent on proverbs, philosophy, and politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 44
Summary:
Invites CD to visit Rothamsted. The experimental plots are at their best "as illustrating the vast influence of external conditions on the character and results of the struggle between the numerous components of an established mixed herbage".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
