From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 131–2
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Summary:
Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.
Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B49–50
Summary:
Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Venice Memorial); The Times , 19 November 1879, p. 8
Summary:
Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 139
Summary:
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 November 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that they are both summoned to a meeting with Algernon Freeman Mitford at the Office of Works, along with Daniel Oliver & [Alexander?] Moore. The latter of whom has written a long letter of falsehoods.
Contributor:
Hooker Project