From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 502
Summary:
On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 64)
Summary:
Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B39–40
Summary:
Thanks for printed sheets and MS. Intends that German version should follow the English, but will add notes to clarify unfamiliar material for German readers.
Thanks for list of plant names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 122
Summary:
Acknowledges proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.
Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.
Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 123–4
Summary:
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
15 Sept 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36194)
Summary:
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Alberts
Date:
16 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
Explains his arrangements with Messrs Reinwald in France and Appleton in America, if they were to publish his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 154
Summary:
Illness of his wife.
Potato crossing experiments; believes he has increased yield considerably.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 125–6
Summary:
Final decisions about the printing of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 17
Summary:
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 69
Summary:
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
24 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Sends the requested signature,
with sympathy for HHJ’s state of health [see 12236].
Reports that HJ’s experiments on tension of parts are often quoted in German works and periodicals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sleigh
Date:
[before 26 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 93
Summary:
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Date:
26 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks for a character reference for a former servant of correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 70
Summary:
Thanks CD for his autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Desrousseaux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 173
Summary:
ED is at work on a book to be called "Les grands phénomènes de la nature", which will furnish additional proof of CD’s doctrine.
Expounds his theory that all phenomena originate in movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Goodacre, F. B.4
- Krause, Ernst4
- Cooke, R. F.3
- Dallas, W. S.3
- Haeckel, Ernst3
- John Murray3
- Johnson, Henry (a)3
- Vries, Hugo de3
- Marshall, Victor2
- Murray, John (b)2
- Reinwald, C.-F.2
- Alberts, Karl1
- Desrousseaux, E.1
- Grey, Thomas de1
- Hahn, Otto1
- Neumayr, Melchior1
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Sleigh, George1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Torbitt, James1