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DCP-LETT-11002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 443–4
Summary:

CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:

Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
13 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 327
Summary:

Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
20 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 52
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.

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DCP-LETT-11073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
26 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 266
Summary:

Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Druitt
Date:
29 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 95
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
National Debt Office
Date:
[after 29 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 73
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 95
Summary:

Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
8 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Summary:

Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 356
Summary:

Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 145: 9
Summary:

Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:

Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:

Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.

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DCP-LETT-13836

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
8 Sept [1877-80]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 278
Summary:

Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.

Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
11 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385a
Summary:

Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A43
Summary:

Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.

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DCP-LETT-11167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:

Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.

Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.

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