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DCP-LETT-12409

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B51
Summary:

Pleased by favourable English newspaper reviews of Erasmus Darwin. Charles Reinwald has not yet said whether he wants to use annotations intended for German readers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0457

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 January 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12412

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B142–3
Summary:

Gratified by CD’s praise.

Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].

Efforts to secure a post.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12414

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 155
Summary:

Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12413

From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 197–8
Summary:

Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.

News of Violetta Darwin’s death.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
11 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 7
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.

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DCP-LETT-12416

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:

Sends some cotton seeds for CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12418

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 41
Summary:

Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12422

From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 200
Summary:

Responds to article in Nature on the sexual colours of butterflies [Collected papers 2: 220–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12423

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 107
Summary:

Sends a seedling Drosera capensis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1301

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
15 January [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 564
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12426

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 9
Summary:

The violent stranding of floating ice as first mentioned in CD’s article ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71] is the most remarkable of the Moel Tryfan phenomena.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 41
Summary:

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12427

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B52
Summary:

What are functions of "yeomen of the armoury" on p. 1? Who is "old Hooker" on p. 34? Needs to explain them in annotations [to Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12428

From:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 208
Summary:

Send CD a present of a fur coat.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
17 [Jan 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 1
Summary:

Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12430

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 213–214
Summary:

The Birmingham Philosophical Society proposes to celebrate CD’s birthday and make him their first Honorary Member. RLT will draft the address.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12432

From:
Hermann Welcker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 181: 88
Summary:

Sends publications.

Discusses comparative anatomy and evolutionary implications of several ligaments.

Thinks effects of Chinese foot-binding are inherited.

Criticises article on Darwinism in Brockhaus’ Lexikon.

Mentions forthcoming book on mammalian vertebrae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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