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DCP-LETT-12023

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 153
Summary:

Describes one of his varieties of potato in its third and fourth years. [CD notes his observations on this variety grown at Down, July 1879.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12026

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:

Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12031

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 92
Summary:

Is struck by the amazing variations of the hardy Primula varieties.

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DCP-LETT-12034

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:

Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].

Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.

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DCP-LETT-12034F

From:
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen; Edward Enfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 48v
Summary:

Invitation to the University College Hospital festival and dinner

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12032

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B22–3
Summary:

Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.

Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.

CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12037

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 102–3
Summary:

Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12035

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 186: 35
Summary:

Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12039

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 104–5
Summary:

Has difficulty with E. Krause’s orthography and quotations.

Asks CD to lend him Anna Seward’s biography [Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12040

From:
John Fordyce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 152
Summary:

Compatibility of evolution and theism.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12038

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B24–5
Summary:

Will wait for CD’s preliminary essay before proceeding with German edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. Regards CD’s essay as the principal attraction. Would like to finish German edition by end of July.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12045

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 106
Summary:

Has CD seen Samuel Butler’s Evolution, old and new [1879], which contains a biography of Erasmus Darwin and exposition of his philosophy? "Does not this rather take the wind out of our sails?"

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12046

From:
Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 1
Summary:

Sends a collection of wheat varieties from Turkestan in response to a newspaper notice of CD’s interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12043

From:
Henry Alfred Pitman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 46
Summary:

CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12044

From:
Robert Tachau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 1
Summary:

Are modifications in human form and intellect due solely to natural selection or do altered external conditions also play a role?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12048

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 76
Summary:

Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12053

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B26
Summary:

Thanks for answers to questions [in 12032].

Has ordered the new book by Butler [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. It may make EK’s own essay superfluous.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12055

From:
Charles Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 233
Summary:

Sends an ammonite from the Upper Lias, which has Balanus-like bodies on surface. He wants CD’s interpretation. Discusses possible function of aptychi, siphuncular tube, and operculum in ammonites.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12056

From:
William Thomas Winn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 131
Summary:

Sends newspaper cutting referring to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12057

From:
C. Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 201: 13
Summary:

Wants some Sunday tickets for the Zoological Garden.

Contributor:
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