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DCP-LETT-10831

From:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653)
Summary:

A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.

Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020A

From:
G. Chiantore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1875
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Address Book)
Summary:

Agrees to wait for the new edition of Variation and accepts Mr Murray’s offer of the clichés at £10. [See 9981.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Summary:

Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12256A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898)
Summary:

Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12333

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
Date:
23 Nov 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:

Has never heard of bees that are carnivorous; hopes someone will investigate ASP’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Horsfall
Date:
8 Feb 1882
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:

Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.

Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-472

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 24 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991)
Summary:

Gives some information on Darwin family history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6541A

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3280

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 31
Summary:

Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2469B

From:
Scrimgeour, Robert Shedden & John Shedden & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1859
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (CD’s Investment book, pp. 84, 74)
Summary:

Provides requested information about certain railway shares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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