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Herschel5003

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W[illiam] Ackland
Date:
[13 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.381 & 24.362
Summary:

Is distressed to hear that [W. L.] Newman's tables cannot be found at the R.A.S. Please make a further search. Does the R.A.S. have C. J. G. [=J. W.] Pastorff's volume of drawings of sunspots?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14337

From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1871]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0498; Reel 1093
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of 'present' from [H. J. R.] Petersen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7684F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 389)
Summary:

Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).

CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).

CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 297
Summary:

Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/30)
Summary:

Reports safe arrival of rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7683

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 175, 175/2
Summary:

Is reading Descent.

Encloses some answers to CD’s queries about expressions of Laura Bridgman.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7686

From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 46
Summary:

Sends German edition of Descent, vol. 1. Expects good sale. Hopes CD will offer him additional books to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 410
Summary:

Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].

Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.

Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5004

From:
W[illiam] Ackland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.382
Summary:

He has seen C. J. G. Pastorff's drawings at the R.A.S. Still no trace of Mr. Newman's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7687F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Leland Balch
Date:
15 Apr 1871
Source of text:
New York World , 8 May 1871
Summary:

Thanks for the report of CLB’s lecture about Descent to the New York Liberal Club on 3 March 1871.

Sends four photographs of himself for the sculptor J. W. A. MacDonald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10958

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.302
Summary:

Thanks for his Easter offering. Sends a little book which he may find useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7687

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 172: 57
Summary:

Objects to the negative reviews of Descent, notably in the Athenæum and the Times.

The exceptions are the Academy, Nature, and his own, in the Field [37 (1871): 210].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6431

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.199
Summary:

Hopes that he found the report of the Porcupine Expedition worth his consideration. Sends a paper in which he examines the question of the Gulf Stream.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7408

From:
Charles Leland Balch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 20
Summary:

CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and

CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7689

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49
Summary:

Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.

Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7689G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:

Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7688

From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 136
Summary:

Answers to questions about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7689F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Newenham Hoare
Date:
16 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the information about the passages in Xenophon and Horace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC584

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
16 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.554-557, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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