From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
[1874–82]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 123
Summary:
[Valediction and signature only.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1874–5?]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C40
Summary:
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
5 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 347
Summary:
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 310; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray Correspondence: Letter from Gray to Hooker, folio 658)
Summary:
Thanks JDH for Asa Gray’s interesting letter.
Would like JDH’s copy of Coral reefs. Needs it for corrections for a new edition. Cannot buy one.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 3
Summary:
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 311–12
Summary:
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
11 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 19 February 1874, pp. 308–9
Summary:
Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
16 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 148: 148
Summary:
Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 249: 120
Summary:
Thanks for HHHvZ’s translation of Expression. CD will have HHHvZ’s notes translated by one of his sons.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Denby
Date:
1 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C43
Summary:
Writes concerning the land he wishes to purchase from Sir John Lubbock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Hartnack
Date:
1 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C42
Summary:
Has been waiting several months for a microscope objective and would like it without delay.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 159
Summary:
On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.
Comments on expression on two halves of human face.
Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.
Poison of venomous snakes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 313–16
Summary:
CD guessed Carruthers was stirred up by Owen. Disgraceful treatment of Bentham.
Work on Descent and Coral reefs stops his doing anything of real interest.
Asa Gray’s letter. CD has acknowledged the honour [honorary membership in the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.].
"What a demon on earth Owen is. I do hate him."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60)
Summary:
Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 381
Summary:
Criticises paper by Ziegler [see 9339].
Acid experiments on seeds have failed.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Perfil’eva (Pauline Perfilieff)
Date:
11 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 147: 242
Summary:
Sends photograph.
Comments on Mme P’s bulldogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
12 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61)
Summary:
Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.
Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".
In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.
Contributor:
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