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WCP7158

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
7 January [1881]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 143: 186
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7157

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 January 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: Add MS 44468: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley 5: 356
  • Huxley, L. (1913). In: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan & Co. [p. 282]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 January [1881]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 302-304
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 305
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 202: 98
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 313-314]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:

CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
7 Jan [1881?]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Sends photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356)
Summary:

Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.

Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cecilia Elizabeth Gore; Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
Summary:

CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203)
Summary:

Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.

Butler has attacked again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 January 1881
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 307-308
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 315]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36212)
Summary:

All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.

F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence Ruck
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
M. G. Hamer (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109v
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13007

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3)
Summary:

Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13012

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Summary:

Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 171
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity

and animal grazing on slopes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13015

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 17 (EH 88205915)
Summary:

Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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