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DCP-LETT-12209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 182–3). Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. Letters: folio 184. Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Summary:

Wants a plant that shows interesting sleep movements identified.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Will do nothing with the geese until he hears from FBG. Is glad FBG intends to publish his results.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49 [A 9903])
Summary:

Invites EH to spend night at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
2 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (catalogue LN7755, 11 December 1997)
Summary:

Until C-FR sees the whole of Erasmus Darwin, he cannot decide if it is worth translating into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
3 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36193)
Summary:

Urges EK to do as he thinks best about German edition of Erasmus Darwin. CD sends original of EK’s essay and translation of parts he has not used.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12218F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
[4 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49b [A 47730])
Summary:

Confirms details of EH’s visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Sept 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 358–9)
Summary:

Though not sanguine about sale [of Erasmus Darwin] it seems fair that if over 1500 copies are sold he should receive two-thirds profit. If JM does not agree, he would prefer publishing on commission or asking Macmillan if they will give him larger profits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12219F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
6 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 7)
Summary:

Perhaps movement from side to side in plants is caused by the contraction of one side, rather than the expansion of the other.

Sends seeds of Lychnis Githago: he observed the hypocotyledenous stem, not the root, contracting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12222

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
9 Sept 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 360–1)
Summary:

Pleased that JM will allow two-thirds profits [on Erasmus Darwin] for he wants Krause to receive some profit.

He and his son [Francis] are preparing a large botanical work [Movement in plants], dry as dust, which he must publish on commission. He will be lucky to lose only £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
10 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent some geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12225

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 64)
Summary:

Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.

Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.

Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for gift of game.

Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
15 Sept 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36194)
Summary:

Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12232F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:

Explains his arrangements with Messrs Reinwald in France and Appleton in America, if they were to publish his work on Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12236A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
24 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends the requested signature,

with sympathy for HHJ’s state of health [see 12236].

Reports that HJ’s experiments on tension of parts are often quoted in German works and periodicals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sleigh
Date:
[before 26 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 93
Summary:

Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Date:
26 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for a character reference for a former servant of correspondent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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