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DCP-LETT-13892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[1853–72?]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London)
Summary:

If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2560G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
29 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (tipped in to the Phillips copy of Origin (QH365 .O1859 1859 8vo c.1))
Summary:

Apologises for not having had time to read Phillips’ books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2827

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Gärtner
Date:
9 June [1860]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Has long venerated her father [Carl F. von Gärtner]. Looks forward to reading his life. CD will do everything he can to make Gärtner’s name more generally known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook)
Summary:

Sends cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Discusses rapid replacement of mates among birds. "I begin to think that the pairing of birds must be as delicate and tedious an operation as the pairing of young gentlemen and ladies. If I can convince myself that there are habitually many unpaired birds it will be a great aid to me in sexual selection". Notes rivalry of singing birds.

Heard from George Rolleston of the inherited effects of an eye injury.

Disagrees with A. R. Wallace’s idea "that birds learn to make their nests from having seen them whilst young" ["The philosophy of birds’ nests", Intellect. Obs. 11 (1867): 413–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Sorry JJW cannot visit.

Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.

Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White
Date:
23 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism (RL.00413): James Botteley and Charles Hart autograph book)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to suspend an enclosed certificate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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