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DCP-LETT-7168A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8209F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marlborough Robert Pryor
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (15 December 2011)
Summary:

Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7617F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. L. Newall
Date:
24 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 July 2008)
Summary:

Sends his signature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
28 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236)
Summary:

Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8076

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

DCP-LETT-8212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007)
Summary:

Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8810F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murray Humphry
Date:
14 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016)
Summary:

Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8938A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane
Date:
[after 7 June 1873]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (20–1 July 1988)
Summary:

Is obliged because of health to decline the invitation [see 8938] to make a voyage on the Admiral’s ship. "… I must rest contented with past memories …"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. C. Kemp
Date:
[26 May 1874]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers): (16 October 1978)
Summary:

There is no uniform edition of CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9828G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1875-81]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

Turns down an offer to undertake a German translation of one of his works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9790A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1875 or earlier?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) catalogue p. 192 (20 July 1989)
Summary:

Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9951

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Humphry Sandwith
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 May 1961)
Summary:

Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10012F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Wendland
Date:
7 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2007)
Summary:

Is very grateful for the gift of a fender-stool. Will send her a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
30 June [1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending his lecture ‘The dawn of animal life’, which seems "a wonderfully clear & interesting sketch of the lower organisms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10038F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
4 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 October 1962)
Summary:

Promises to propose JJW for membership in Zoological Society.

Sympathises with JJW’s enthusiasm about the Danais and hopes it may become naturalised in this country.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11590

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:

Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
Date:
[29 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 February 1959)
Summary:

"If you finally succeed in proving that all languages have been developed from a common root, you will indeed have effected a most valuable piece of work."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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