From:
Mary Jung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 94
Summary:
Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 104
Summary:
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70)
Summary:
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
10 January 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 184
Summary:
Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Jung
Date:
11 Jan 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
Summary:
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 189
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ernst Behm
Date:
13 January 1879
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha.For a published version of this letter see Voigt (1996) pp. 134-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Allen Thorndike Rice
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 January 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 181-182
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Blackley
Date:
14 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Formerly in the private collection of Dr T. B. Robinson
Summary:
Thanks CHB for his anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[14 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
14 January 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 121
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
George Goyder
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 January 1879
Source of text:
GRG 35/20/36, outward letter press copy books, p. 161, Department of Lands, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Helmut Würtenberger (private collection)
Summary:
Is sorry that LW’s circumstances interfere with his scientific work. Does not think any English scientific society can help.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project