From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 131–2
Summary:
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B43
Summary:
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 123
Summary:
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 8
Summary:
Sends CD his version for children of Journal of researches [What Mr Darwin saw].
During the last illness of his father, William Lloyd Garrison, WPG showed him CD’s passages on slavery.
"In combating the enemies of freedom in this country he [W. L. Garrison] emancipated himself from the theology the destruction of which is perhaps your highest title to the honor of your own time and the blessings of posterity."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 127–8
Summary:
E. Krause has sent his corrected proofs with suggestions and questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 133
Summary:
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 93
Summary:
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 22
Summary:
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 310
Summary:
The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 8
Summary:
DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Alston; Emily Beke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 125
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 163
Summary:
Describes cow with three toes
and a woman with two functional nipples on left breast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B41–2
Summary:
Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.
Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.
Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 64
Summary:
Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B3–4
Summary:
Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 121
Summary:
Asks CD to examine his idea that human and animal sociology are related, as each is based on the principle of mutual concession (derived from Schopenhauer’s law of compassion). If CD approves, he should write a note and forward it and GMA’s letter to Macmillan’s Magazine.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 94
Summary:
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 3
Summary:
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 65
Summary:
Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project