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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 76
Summary:

The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.

Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.

Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 83
Summary:

Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 178: 113
Summary:

Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:

Delay in sending deerhound puppy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 October 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 114
Summary:

Cancelled. Now enclosure to S7695.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 379
Summary:

Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.

Various publication arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 84
Summary:

Leaving England.

Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:

Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Oct 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 14
Summary:

Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Oct 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 20
Summary:

Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gage
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 2
Summary:

Convinced by CD’s Origin.

As a "student of spirit intercourse", he asks CD for more details about the scene of the dancing spoon in Journal of researches [p. 546].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1870
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113
Summary:

Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 380
Summary:

Sends table of sales [of Journal of researches]. 2000 copies sold since 1860.

Descent has gone to press for 2500 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 66
Summary:

Returning CD’s books.

Sympathises with women’s lot in life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 191
Summary:

Has heard of CD’s forthcoming book [Descent] from J. D. Hooker.

Leaves next week for winter quarters in Sandown.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Stephen Augustine Merrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 158
Summary:

Offers to send his short article on the "Unity of generation" which supports the developmental hypothesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project