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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1870s?]
Source of text:
The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984)
Summary:

Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Declines offer of book on physics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
14 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy)
Summary:

When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:

CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009)
Summary:

Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Summary:

Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May [1871]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109)
Summary:

Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 123
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 July 1871
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:

Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Sept [1871-81]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005)
Summary:

Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 Nov [1871–81]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993)
Summary:

"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
Summary:

Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1872 or later?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051)
Summary:

Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.405)
Summary:

Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb [1872-4]
Source of text:
University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251)
Summary:

Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project