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DCP-LETT-10596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 92
Summary:

Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10604

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 10
Summary:

Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.

Sadness at the death of Amy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10606

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 419–20
Summary:

CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
19 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 293
Summary:

Discusses page length [of Cross and self-fertilisation]. Doubts 1500 copies will be sold until lapse of some years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10610F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
19 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 185: 112
Summary:

Would like to see the pigeons, though he is not likely to work on the subject again. When he hears from Dr Scully, he will present them to the British Museum.

Has not had time to use the information about earthworms yet, but hopes to use it in about a year’s time.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 11
Summary:

Suggests German works worth translating.

Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Schmid
Date:
25 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 147: 427
Summary:

Thanks for RS’s work [Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10617

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:

FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
26 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:

Invites him to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 13
Summary:

Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.

Has some articles that might interest FD.

Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 14
Summary:

Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.

Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10625

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 145
Summary:

Discusses the purchase of some land;

plans to visit Southampton.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 15
Summary:

Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].

Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 16
Summary:

Sends an article for FD.

Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 347
Summary:

Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.

Discusses graft-hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:

Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:

Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159
Summary:

Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:

Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 57
Summary:

Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.

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