From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
Invites FG to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[Nov 1874 – May 1880]
Source of text:
Ms Caroline Waid (private collection)
Summary:
Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
5 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C63–4
Summary:
Has just had printed a new edition of Descent [1874] and is anxious that this improved version be circulated in America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 37
Summary:
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 344)
Summary:
Thanks JM for granting his request. Will write to D. Appleton.
CD is sorry about heavy loss from Expression; still thinks the book will sell in the course of years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Beal
Date:
9 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Sarah Baker Topper (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks WJB for his reference [see 9691]. Is curious fact that the humble bees did not use the pollen, but the hive bees did.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ferguson McLennan
Date:
10 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 44 no date)
Summary:
Will send Alexis Giraud-Teulon’s book [Origines de la famille (1874)], which he has received but not read, if JFM cares to read it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Gustav Kemp
Date:
11 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1)
Summary:
Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MiscMS 253)
Summary:
Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down School Board
Date:
16 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1)
Summary:
Must resign because of his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 342
Summary:
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 39
Summary:
Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
Date:
18 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 3, 3 r)
Summary:
Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ludwig Noiré
Date:
19 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170), Professor John C. Gray (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks LN for his book [Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes], which he hopes to read soon, but his poor German hampers him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
20 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 125–126)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for a correction to 2d English edition of Descent, which is now finished. 1350 copies were sold at Murray’s sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
20 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 13 March 2002
Summary:
Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
24 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C66
Summary:
Testimonial stating CD’s opinion of RBS’s fitness for a higher post at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 153: 91
Summary:
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 345–6
Summary:
Quite agrees with JDH on inadvisability of Huxley’s taking on the Edinburgh lectures.
Is awaiting JDH’s memorial to the Board [of Works?] on his burdensome duties.
Glad to hear JDH finds ease in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
