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DCP-LETT-10305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/21)
Summary:

Mentions revisions [in Variation, 2d ed.].

Argues with FG’s theory of heredity, defending Pangenesis: "I cannot doubt that every unit of the hybrid is hybridised and sends forth hybridised gemmules."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:

Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157)
Summary:

Sends signed enclosure.

FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10774

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24)
Summary:

Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[1 Mar 1879?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Monday?

Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Summary:

Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.

Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Asks about family letters.

Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12100

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

DCP-LETT-12109

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

DCP-LETT-12317

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
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