From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 87
Summary:
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 387
Summary:
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project