From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 86
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 13
Summary:
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Susan Parker; Mary Susan Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 45
Summary:
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 333
Summary:
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 14
Summary:
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 15–16
Summary:
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
5 Feb 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.378)
Summary:
Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Susan Parker; Mary Susan Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 46
Summary:
CD’s goddaughter, Maud, has been christened.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2)
Summary:
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 33b
Summary:
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berry Benson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 148
Summary:
Compliments Origin.
Sends extract about a waterplant to illustrate CD’s points about the means of dispersal in geographical distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 90
Summary:
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George P. Bissell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 261 (Letters)
Summary:
Sends information on the distribution of various species in the U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 334
Summary:
Asks who the gentleman is who is studying cattle skulls; RS has some that he would like examined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Feb [1870-82]
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:
Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.
Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:
About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:
Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 190
Summary:
Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, G. H.3
- Kovalevsky, V. O.3
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Fox, W. D.2
- Gray, Asa2
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Mostyn Owen, M. S.2
- Newton, Alfred2
- Parker, M. S.2
- Preyer, William2
- Swinhoe, Robert2
- American Philosophical Society.1
- Benson, Berry1
- Bissell, G. P.1
- Child, G. W.1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Garner, Robert1
- Gray, J. L.1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Jäger, Gustav1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Orton, James1
- Rye, E. C.1
- Swale, William1
- Unidentified1