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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward James Collings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 201: 8
Summary:
Wants information on the use of reason by animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 20
Summary:
Has searched to no avail for 17th- and 18th-century wills to learn how Elston Hall was acquired by Robert Darwin rather than by William Darwin, even though Robert was the younger son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B28
Summary:
Samuel Butler seems not even to have read works of Erasmus Darwin. Quotes only passages quoted by other authors. Thorough account now more necessary than ever.
CD’s preliminary notice should be incorporated in German edition completely unchanged, though some annotation is needed to explain matters unfamiliar to German readers.
Would like to have article by CD for Kosmos.
Contributor:
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From:
Albin Gaertner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 1
Summary:
CD’s works have opened a new world for him.
Sends a case of inheritance: a fingernail biting habit has persisted for four generations in a Viennese lawyer’s family.
Contributor:
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From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 169–70
Summary:
Will attempt to copy the drawing of Elston Hall [Erasmus Darwin, p. 3]. Does not remember the highway robber story [ibid., pp. 64–5].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 45
Summary:
Thanks for postcard informing him of Delboeuf’s review of his book; he had already seen review.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 54
Summary:
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
Contributor:
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From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 27
Summary:
Will be glad to draw Elston Hall for CD.
Gives some details of Sir Brook Boothby.
Contributor:
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From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 10
Summary:
Speaks of the delight of having met CD.
Hopes William Darwin may be able to visit Worthing.
Contributor:
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From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 156–7
Summary:
Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].
Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].
Contributor:
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From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4)
Summary:
The official parish tithe map shows that a greater error than at first thought was made in measuring Miss Wedgwood’s land. She was overpaid £15 10s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project