From:
Charles Valentine Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A61–2
Summary:
Notes on reefs in the SW Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 151
Summary:
Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[late 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1433
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1879–80?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 37
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1879–80]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1879–80]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Marius Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 48
Summary:
A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 188
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Mary Jung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 94
Summary:
Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 104
Summary:
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70)
Summary:
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
10 January 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 184
Summary:
Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 189
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[14 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 January 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 121
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Melchior Neumayr
Date:
15 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2017)
Summary:
Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project