CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
Classmark: | Empire Auction (dealers) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
To ? [1876?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 21 March 1876
Summary
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423F |
To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May 1876 |
Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537 |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537F |
To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To ? 30 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 June [1875-81] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10552 |
To Nature [before 2 November 1876]
Summary
Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 2 Nov 1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 2 November 1876, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10660 |
To ? 21 December 1876
Summary
Sends his signature
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728F |
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