From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1875-81]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:
Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Jan [1875-82]
Source of text:
Romero de Tejada 1982, p. 150; Museo Nacional de Etnología [now Antropología], Madrid
Summary:
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 25
Summary:
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Feb [1875-8]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 17 Feb 1875]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 31)
Summary:
CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1875 or earlier?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989)
Summary:
Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5)
Summary:
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Apr [1875-82]
Source of text:
Jane da Mosto (private collection)
Summary:
Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 May [1875]
Source of text:
eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018)
Summary:
Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 [May 1875]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 59)
Summary:
Agrees that time alone can do nothing to modify species.
Is aware that the Papaveraceae are self-fertile but feels this does not preclude an occasional cross.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
22 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15)
Summary:
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496)
Summary:
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1875]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 17 July 1875, p. 78
Summary:
Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1)
Summary:
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Sept [1875-6]
Source of text:
Empire Auction (dealers) (1996)
Summary:
Encloses a photograph and [?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C1–2
Summary:
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
