From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 309
Summary:
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8265)
Summary:
Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/27)
Summary:
CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.10: 85
Summary:
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 129
Summary:
Is applying for the Chair in Zoology at Owens College and asks CD for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
Date:
[after 11 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 129v
Summary:
Does not feel he knows enough of FBW to offer his opinion as a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Paul (Paolo) Aussant-Carà
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 128
Summary:
Expresses great admiration for CD and requests a picture of him with his signature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Howlett, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
13 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 31, 32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B29–30
Summary:
Has completed his MS and sent it to Dallas.
Has ignored Butler’s criticism of natural selection and corrected only his views of Buffon and Goethe.
It would be best to drop EK’s text from book and quote only certain portions of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
14 June [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8266)
Summary:
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Radcliffe (Thomas) Comber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 215
Summary:
Sends specimens showing gynodioecism in Plantago lanceolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
15 [June 1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Summary:
CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.
May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Otto
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 173: 41
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 109
Summary:
Has just received concluding portion of Krause’s MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 55
Summary:
Has given his reasons for believing that twisting of stem is related to circumnutation in Climbing plants.
Tells results of experiments on movement of cotyledons and radicles.
Is getting aerial heliotropic roots from Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
16 June [1879]
Source of text:
New York Medical College
Summary:
CD will attend to ELK’s suggestions, but there is plenty of time, because Dallas translates slowly and Murray will not publish the book before November.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Bonamy Price
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 June 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 19-20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 16 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 53
Summary:
Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs’ laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Alfred Pitman; Royal College of Physicians
Date:
17 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D11)
Summary:
Asks for directions on how to behave at ceremony conferring the Baly Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project