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DCP-LETT-10245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.

Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10250

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A88–9
Summary:

Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].

CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10278

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A90–1
Summary:

Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".

Contributor:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-10309

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:

Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".

Contributor:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-10395

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B3–B11
Summary:

Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.

Contributor:
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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-10694

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 105: A96
Summary:

Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.

Contributor:
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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-10783

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 192
Summary:

Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.

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:
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DCP-LETT-10859

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 105: A97–8
Summary:

Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11526

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105A: 99–100
Summary:

Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].

Contributor:
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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:
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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-12094

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 14
Summary:

Conveys some information about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s second wife and discusses photos of him and his wife.

Contributor:
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