From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949)
Summary:
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 January 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 62, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 186
Summary:
Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll
Date:
[7 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 24
Summary:
Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
7 Jan [1881?]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:
Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356)
Summary:
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cecilia Elizabeth Gore; Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
Summary:
CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7] Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 335
Summary:
Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203)
Summary:
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B62
Summary:
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 172
Summary:
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B150–1
Summary:
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 217–20
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 343
Summary:
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
[10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36212)
Summary:
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project