From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
27 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Bran [deerhound puppy] is thriving; enjoys English life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
28 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2)
Summary:
Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 298
Summary:
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 299
Summary:
J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Edinburgh intellectual climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s visit to Edinburgh.
J. H. Stirling did not write anonymous review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Suggests T. Spencer Baynes of St Andrews. [? T. S. Baynes, "Darwin on expression", 137 (1873): 492–528.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
7 June [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428)
Summary:
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 85–90
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 300
Summary:
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 90: 91–2, 94–7, 102–13, 117–19; DAR 161: 301
Summary:
Answers to queries are being sent.
Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.
Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.
Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.
Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.
Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.
Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26
Summary:
Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.
Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.
Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
25 Feb 1875
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (December 2001)
Summary:
"Last night it suddenly occurred to me that I had not sent you the last Edition of the Descent of Man published in November."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 303
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 304
Summary:
Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project