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DCP-LETT-12408

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Murray
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069)
Summary:

Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12410

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 70
Summary:

FBG greatly interested in CD’s article ["Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese and common goose"] but has not altered his opinion on the matter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12409

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B51
Summary:

Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12411F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12409F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Antonio Mendola
Date:
8 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010)
Summary:

Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12412

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B142–3
Summary:

Gratified by CD’s praise.

Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].

Efforts to secure a post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12414

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 155
Summary:

Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12413

From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 197–8
Summary:

Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.

News of Violetta Darwin’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
11 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 7
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eugene Ferguson
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
Summary:

Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12416

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:

Sends some cotton seeds for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12419A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Krakauer
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:

"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12418

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 41
Summary:

Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12422

From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 200
Summary:

Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12423

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 107
Summary:

Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12423F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jabez Hogg
Date:
14 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1453, 2011)
Summary:

CD’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, must have published on arsenic, as his father never published on medical subjects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12426

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 9
Summary:

The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 41
Summary:

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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