From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
1 and 6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sophie Kowalevski collections, box 3)
Summary:
Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.
Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 271.6: a6
Summary:
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:
Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.
Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27
Summary:
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 6
Summary:
JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 169
Summary:
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 170
Summary:
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202)
Summary:
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:
Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 58
Summary:
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36211)
Summary:
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 153: 89
Summary:
Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gottlieb Haberlandt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 14
Summary:
Thanks CD for a second copy of Movement in plants. His letter acknowledging the first must have gone astray. Marvels at the number of interesting observations and is honoured by CD’s mention of his work.
In recent years GH has been applying CD’s principles to the histologico-anatomical structure of plant organs. He will send CD the papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B88–90, B106
Summary:
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
[5] Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 127
Summary:
T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85)
Summary:
Passes on legal advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 52
Summary:
He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
