From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 190
Summary:
Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 32–5
Summary:
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 76
Summary:
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 59
Summary:
Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
3 June 1877
Source of text:
Phillips (dealers) (June 1995)
Summary:
Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 June [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119)
Summary:
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Bradlaugh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 275
Summary:
Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Huntsman
Date:
5 June [1877]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515)
Summary:
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Bradlaugh
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 32
Summary:
CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.
Contributor:
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From:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 122
Summary:
Sends holly specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Roberts
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections (Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection)
Summary:
Sends six photographs of himself as a contribution to correspondent’s charity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 53; DAR 47: 139–42
Summary:
Sends MS notes on intercrossing.
Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.
Has made a number of grafts at Kew.
Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Frédéric Martins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 63
Summary:
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6582: 377)
Summary:
Pleased that a Grace has been submitted to confer on CD an honorary LL.D.; hopes his health will permit him to attend the ceremony.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 197
Summary:
Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 2
Summary:
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Romanes, G. J.4
- Unidentified4
- Darwin, Francis3
- Bradlaugh, Charles2
- Carus, J. V.2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Gray, Asa2
- John Murray2
- Morgan, L. H.2
- Robertson, G. C.2
- Rodwell, J. M.2
- Tait, Lawson2
- Alglave, Émile1
- Atkinson, Edward1
- Bessey, C. E.1
- Bianconi, G. G.1
- Blackley, C. H.1
- Busch, Otto1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Fish, D. T.1
- Huntsman, Henry1
- Krause, Ernst1
- Martinelli, A. J.1
- Martins, C. F.1
- Roberts, Charles1
- Roberts, William1
- Sclater, P. L.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Thomson, C. W.1
- Wray, Clipson1