From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 6
Summary:
Arrangements regarding HD’s allowances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5)
Summary:
Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Prestwich
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 253
Summary:
JP is right; CD gave up [Glen Roy theory] when he read T. F. Jamieson ["On the parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–58].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 515
Summary:
Returns BJS’s Christmas good wishes.
The progress of Tierra del Fuego is almost as wonderful as that of Japan.
Is sorry to hear about Mellersh.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ercole Ricotti
Date:
4 Jan 1880
Source of text:
www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011)
Summary:
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972)
Summary:
Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36198)
Summary:
The reviews of Erasmus Darwin are mainly favourable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 185: 118
Summary:
Thanks for the information about Dr Erasmus Darwin and his parents.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vincent, Teja & Co.
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 68
Summary:
Requests that they receive, on his behalf, an award of 12000 lira [lire!?] from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and transmit it to the Union Bank, London.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 286–8)
Summary:
Admiration of ARW’s ["The origin of species and genera", Nineteenth Century (Jan 1880)]. Good use of Allen’s "admirable researches".
Disappointment about the Epping Forest appointment.
Farrer’s article in Fortnightly Review.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cole
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archivess (Essex Naturalists Field Club MLDA/9)
Summary:
Regrets he is unwilling to join [Epping Forest Field Club], but encloses a guinea to aid with their preliminary expenses.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque centrale, Paris (Ms FAB 32)
Summary:
Thanks JHF for copy of his Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Murray
Date:
6 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3069)
Summary:
Thanks JM for sending Drosera specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Summary:
Thanks for gift of bananas.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Antonio Mendola
Date:
8 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010)
Summary:
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 155
Summary:
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
11 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 7
Summary:
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eugene Ferguson
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
Summary:
Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Krakauer
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Contributor:
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