From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 9 (EH 88205934)
Summary:
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Ford
Date:
[before 4 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C41
Summary:
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 [Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 321
Summary:
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 290
Summary:
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 291
Summary:
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
16 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C50–1
Summary:
CD’s son Francis is to be married, so CD is seeking advice as to how much he should arrange as a marriage-settlement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 19
Summary:
Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.
Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Willett
Date:
19 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 359
Summary:
F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 20
Summary:
GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.
Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
