From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100)
Summary:
Sends his autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2)
Summary:
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May 1876
Source of text:
International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625)
Summary:
Sends his autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006)
Summary:
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends his signature
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Feb 1877
Source of text:
eBay (September 2001)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 Mar 1877
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?)
Summary:
Sends autograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[before 22 May 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 166
Summary:
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 69: A12–13
Summary:
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974)
Summary:
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project