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DCP-LETT-9292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb [1872-4]
Source of text:
University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251)
Summary:

Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8211F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8212F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:

Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19?] [February?] [1872]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: Quentin Keynes" bequest (DAR 270.1: 24)
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Sends 6th ed. of Origin;

draws attention to his criticism of ARW’s estimate of Kovalevsky;

mentions his disagreement with much of Spencer’s doctrine

and in a postscript points out an inaccuracy in an article in Once a Month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8211G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13800

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 132
Summary:

Asks for investment advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 47
Summary:

Wants AR to make any observations she can on the occurrence of little ledges on the side of steep, turf-covered slopes. Feels they may result from the washing down of worm-castings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); DAR 53.1: C50
Summary:

Asks for the negative and permission to publish photo of smiling girl. [Expression, p. 202, plate III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anatole Roujou
Date:
28 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Has read correspondent’s work. Glad he is not shocked at belief that man is descendant of lower form. An unusual attitude for a Frenchman.

Fears they differ greatly on origins of moral sense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;

thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 342
Summary:

Glad AW’s eyesight is better.

Has received AW’s essay [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Glad he is turning attention to sexual selection. Hardly any naturalists agree with CD on subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:

David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about ducks.

Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[9 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
Summary:

CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8241F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 39418)
Summary:

Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
16 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.412)
Summary:

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8248

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
[20 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn (SANT/BEQ/4/4/55A)
Summary:

Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:

Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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