From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C11
Summary:
Is convinced that the "brotherly spirit of the transaction" will cause Huxley not to raise objections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 106: C12
Summary:
W. G. Armstrong and T. H. Farrer have both contributed [to the Huxley fund].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 14 (EH 88205952)
Summary:
Sends JT the list and amounts subscribed for Huxley. It will probably amount to £1800. He will write to Huxley and use every argument he can to make him accept.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 106: C13–14
Summary:
It is Huxley’s "duty to do what we wish him to do – his duty to his wife and children, his duty to us and to the world". Shares CD’s wish that Mrs [Henry] L[yell?] had not subscribed – it suggests the idea of an effort.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Summary:
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 106: C15
Summary:
[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954)
Summary:
Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 17 (EH 88205955)
Summary:
Sends another copy [of Huxley’s letter of thanks for holiday fund].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 18 (EH 88205956)
Summary:
It has just occurred to CD that he ought not to leave a copy of Huxley’s confidential letter in the hands of anyone. Asks JT to write to ask recipients to return the copies to CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 [May] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957)
Summary:
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 33 (EH 88205971)
Summary:
Asks JT to support his nephew, Henry Parker, for election to the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: C16
Summary:
Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958)
Summary:
CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].
Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959)
Summary:
Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960)
Summary:
Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: C17–18
Summary:
JT had not known Lady Lubbock was ill. Will try to persuade her [to change physicians]. Agrees Andrew Clark is best.
Hooker has survived his crisis [death of his wife].
St G. J. Mivart’s act is a natural outflow of his character.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961)
Summary:
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: C20–1
Summary:
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
Contributor:
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