From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:
Searching for the right gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Summary:
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61)
Summary:
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 362–3)
Summary:
Final arrangements for publishing Erasmus Darwin. If he were publishing on commission he would have printed only 1000 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Date:
[after 4 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
Garrison and Garrison 1885–9, 4: 199 n. 1
Summary:
Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009)
Summary:
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
6 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for part three of his Atlas [see 11039].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
8 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
John Murray could supply clichés of two woodcuts at a trifling cost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898)
Summary:
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]
and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
Summary:
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sim
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Aberdeen City Libraries, Local Studies (George Sim papers)
Summary:
Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 549
Summary:
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project