Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 131
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
19 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 218
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 228
Summary:
Sends seed attached to breast feathers of a heron that had been shot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B67
Summary:
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
21 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
22 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 219
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[23 January 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 626
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: A46
Summary:
Is recuperating well in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
28 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 220
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[28] January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 221
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan 1880]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80)
Summary:
Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 90
Summary:
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oskar von Giesl
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 41
Summary:
Asks CD to write his opinion of the views expressed in "Die Darwin’sche Theorie und die Landwirtschaft" in his journal, Reunion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
31 January 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 132
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
31 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 144: 14; Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:
Comments on JHF’s book [Souvenirs entomologiques (1879)].
Discusses story told by Erasmus Darwin about a wasp cutting off wings of fly.
Sorry JHF is opposed to descent theory.
Suggests experiment concerning insects’ sense of direction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[February 1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 223
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
1 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40
Summary:
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4
Summary:
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B75–8, 81
Summary:
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 56
Summary:
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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