From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 146: 13
Summary:
Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
1 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 22
Summary:
Sends a copy of Expression
and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
[1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 48
Summary:
Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
2 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].
Sends a copy of Expression.
His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]
so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 23
Summary:
Thanks SH for news of her family. Would like her to visit Down in the spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Smith Craig
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
University of Aberdeen Library, Special Collections (MS 2289)
Summary:
Cannot accept honour of nomination as Lord Rector [of Aberdeen University].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives (Bookfellow Foundation Scrapbooks, p.47)
Summary:
Thanks LHJ for a memoir [about remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
7 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Has sent off a few trifling errata [of Expression] to Mr Clowes. Asks about the heliotypes.
Would like to hear about the sale of his books. [See 8616.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410)
Summary:
Orders enema.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12)
Summary:
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:
Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.
On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Clifton College (Stone Library MSS)
Summary:
Thanks for 3rd edition of ACR’s Physical geology and geography of Great Britain (A. C. Ramsay 1872).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
11 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 98–99)
Summary:
Reports on very successful sale of Expression in England. Suggests German publisher keep the type set up in case more than the expected 3000 copies are needed.
Has begun work on some old botanical observations [of Drosera for Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 276–7)
Summary:
CD is delighted and astonished at sale of Expression,
and pleased with sale of others, except Descent. He fears a new edition of that work may never be required. Would have liked to bring out a thoroughly revised one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 291–2)
Summary:
Thanks JM for £210 on last reprint of Origin [6th ed.]. Pleased by its sale
and by the success of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/15)
Summary:
Acknowledges the sum of £216 18s. 6d.
Obliged for kind enquiries about his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Smith
Date:
[after 19 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189r
Summary:
Thanks for Louisville Courier Journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 288
Summary:
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
21 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.425)
Summary:
Sends Expression.
Remarks on student days and old friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project