From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Sophia Galton
Date:
2 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Summary:
Parcel of drawings and MS arrived safely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 172)
Summary:
Thanks for WTT-D’s trouble.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 83
Summary:
Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 135
Summary:
Sends specimens from F. Müller.
Criticises A. R. Wallace’s review of Grant Allen’s The colour-sense [Nature 19 (1879): 501–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 20
Summary:
Is interested to hear of CD’s life of Dr Erasmus Darwin. There is no photo of Breadsall Priory, but she would be happy to make a drawing of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 97
Summary:
Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.
Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 [May] 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36180)
Summary:
Thinks it better to send proofs of his preface [to Erasmus Darwin] rather than MS – he always corrects proofs heavily. Doubts that it is worth translating into German – it is written for the English public. Supposes EK will not object to a French translation and an American edition of the little book. Has written a dozen pages during a break
in his experimental work [on movement of plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 74
Summary:
CD made an ordinary member of the Royal Danish Academy. [See 11984.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:
Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.
His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.
Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 84
Summary:
Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 21
Summary:
Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].
Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.
Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219
Summary:
Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.
The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.
Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 152–153
Summary:
Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].
RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab)
Summary:
Thanks Royal Danish Academy for electing him as a Member, and for the kind expressions toward him from so many illustrious naturalists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 22
Summary:
Gives some examples of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s benevolence; will forward some books that may interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 99
Summary:
Research for Erasmus Darwin. CD has always thought there is one "golden rule" for biographers: "not to insert anything which … would interest only the members of the Family".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 154–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 166
Summary:
Discusses material for Erasmus Darwin including an engraved portrait by Joseph Wright.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 196
Summary:
He has nothing at all to send in answer to CD’s questions respecting the book on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
