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DCP-LETT-11981

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:

Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 98; Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009); LL 3: 219
Summary:

Details of family history. Has discovered Dr Darwin did get to Edinburgh before his son, Charles, died.

The more CD reads of Dr Darwin the higher he rises in his estimation.

Is tired of writing letters, "half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2394

From:
William Smith
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 April 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 17-18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11983

From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 152–153
Summary:

Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].

RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11985

From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 22
Summary:

Gives some examples of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s benevolence; will forward some books that may interest CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11984

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
Date:
9 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab)
Summary:

Thanks Royal Danish Academy for electing him as a Member, and for the kind expressions toward him from so many illustrious naturalists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 99
Summary:

Research for Erasmus Darwin. CD has always thought there is one "golden rule" for biographers: "not to insert anything which … would interest only the members of the Family".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11988

From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 166
Summary:

Discusses material for Erasmus Darwin including an engraved portrait by Joseph Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11989

From:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 196
Summary:

He has nothing at all to send in answer to CD’s questions respecting the book on Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:
12 Apr 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/1/1)
Summary:

Thanks EAW for assistance. Describes plans for writing preliminary sketch [for Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11991

From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 167–8
Summary:

Sends her sketch of [Breadsall] Priory, as renovated by present owner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Fanny Kellogg
Date:
13 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (28 May 1981); Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (28 April 2021, lot 49)
Summary:

Sends thanks for "communicating the curious case of a habitual gesture, like that which I have treated as inherited. I may add that since I write, the action has been transmitted to another generation. Your case shall be sent to Mr Galton, who gave me the information".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11994

From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 138–41
Summary:

Answers CD’s query about Robert Darwin of Lincoln’s Inn.

Sends an introduction for Leonard Darwin to their tenants at Elston Hall.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC675

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 April 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 52, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FL-1412

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 April 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 869
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11995F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1879
Source of text:
The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.

Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.

Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.

Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11995

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 175–6
Summary:

Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11996

From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 142–3
Summary:

Thanks CD for offer of his portrait.

Suggests a solicitor who has Darwin papers and who may have information about Cleatham.

Describes her portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1879
Source of text:
University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections
Summary:

Sends letters from RD’s father to R. W. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11999

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 293
Summary:

Observations on unusual mating behaviour of canaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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