From:
Montagu Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109
Summary:
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence Ruck
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
M. G. Hamer (private collection)
Summary:
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109v
Summary:
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 369
Summary:
Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.
Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
MM/17/116, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 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:
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3)
Summary:
Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 112
Summary:
Has written to Balfour concerning the Butler affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lawrence Ruck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 224
Summary:
Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B68–71
Summary:
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 371
Summary:
Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 86)
Summary:
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Summary:
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 171
Summary:
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 255
Summary:
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 17 (EH 88205915)
Summary:
Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 25
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project