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FVM-81-01-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
10 January 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1877-82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36212)
Summary:

All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.

F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13003

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13000

From:
Montagu Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109
Summary:

Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence Ruck
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
M. G. Hamer (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2047

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 January 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 127-128
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109v
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13006

From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 369
Summary:

Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.

Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-01-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
T80/12201, unit 1229, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a published copy of this letter see B81.02.01
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP7162

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 369
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001248

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
MM/17/116, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13007

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3)
Summary:

Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-01-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Jean Müller
Date:
12 January 1881
Source of text:
Conservatoire et Jardin botanique, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13009

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 112
Summary:

Has written to Balfour concerning the Butler affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12417

From:
Lawrence Ruck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 224
Summary:

Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13008

From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B68–71
Summary:

Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13011

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:

Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13010

From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 371
Summary:

Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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