From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1882?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 116
Summary:
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
6 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.611), DAR 207: 4
Summary:
Accepts GJR’s offer to prepare sugar-cane paper for publication [Villa Franca and Glass, "New varieties of sugar-cane", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1880–2): 30–1]. Suggests introduction and outline.
Agrees with GJR on microscope for Grant Allen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 60
Summary:
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
Date:
9 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 29
Summary:
Thinks that "women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually". Believes that men and women may have been aboriginally equal in this respect but that to regain equality women would have to "become as regular ""bread-winners"" as are men". Suspects the education of children and "the happiness of our homes" would greatly suffer in that case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 148: 130
Summary:
CD’s gardener reports that potatoes were not attacked by disease, but yield was not good. Noble of JT to plan the return of subscriptions if trade continues to improve.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
11 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 270
Summary:
Thanks FJC for presentation copy [of Die Pflanze (1882)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Summary:
Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 95: 545
Summary:
CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 113
Summary:
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 12a
Summary:
Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Date:
[before Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 87
Summary:
Is glad to hear that Hermann Müller approves of D’AWT’s translation of his work [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]; he hopes a publisher may be found for a work of such high value.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gertrude Susan Astley; Gertrude Susan Nicholson
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123v
Summary:
Testifies to F. W. Surman’s good character and honesty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a
Summary:
Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Rich
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 92: A44–7
Summary:
Exchanges news on health.
Thanks AR for his worm observations.
George Darwin’s work is attracting attention; he intends to try for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge. Adds other news of George and of CD’s sons Leonard and William.
CD has finished his microscopic work and has only to write up two papers for the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Howard Vines
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 80
Summary:
CD will put together his notes on the action of carbonate of ammonia on roots in a few days. Asks SHV to send any information he may have, but not to answer if he has none. [See 13666.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
G. Clinch
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 260
Summary:
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925)
Summary:
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Arthur Reade
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 292
Summary:
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970)
Summary:
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project