From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 96
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
11 Nov 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 November 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Patrick O'Shanesy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 November 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M16, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 March 2020, lot 28)
Summary:
Has instructed his publisher to send copies of Erasmus Darwin to herself, her sister Emma Sophia Galton, and their half-cousin, Emma Nixon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Eliza Thomasine (Anne) (Eliza) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 135
Summary:
On behalf of her sister Violetta, who is ill, thanks CD for copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23)
Summary:
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 162–3
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Douglas Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 179–80
Summary:
Thanks for book [Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 34
Summary:
Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: A101–2
Summary:
Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;
asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 187–8
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. Has wished that justice be done to Dr Darwin’s originality and his anticipation of some modern scientific theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jan van Bolhuis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 236
Summary:
Does CD believe in the "Word of the Lord", i.e., Genesis?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
13 November 1879
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Eugene Crowell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 November 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 186
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 131–2
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Summary:
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B49–50
Summary:
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Venice Memorial); The Times , 19 November 1879, p. 8
Summary:
Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 139
Summary:
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project