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To W. E. Darwin   3 June [1859]

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Reports events at Down.

Is busy with proofs [of Origin];

is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  3 June [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2467

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  • … To W.  E. Darwin   3 June [1859] …
  • … 1, letter to J.  S. Henslow, 18 July 1833 ). See letter to W.  E. Darwin, 7 July [1859] . …
  • … Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W.  E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] , for William’s plans for …
  • … to W.  E. Darwin, 24 [February 1852] ). Emily Catherine Darwin left Down on 2 June 1859 ( …

To W. E. Darwin   [23 October – 20 November 1859]

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Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [23 Oct – 20 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2497

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  • … To W.  E. Darwin   [23 October – 20 November 1859] …
  • … mentioned in the letter to W.  E. Darwin, 3 June [1859] . The London Library was founded …

To W. E. Darwin   25 [August 1859]

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Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  25 [Aug 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2483

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  • … To W.  E. Darwin   25 [August 1859] …
  • … in the Lake District (see letters to W.  E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] and 7 July [1859] ). Emma …
  • Darwin returned to Down on 25 August 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The case involving the family of Henry Tibbats Stainton was reported in The Times , 11 July 1859, p.  10. CD had suggested that Stainton might assist William when he first began to study Lepidoptera (see Correspondence vol.  5, letter to W.  E. …

To W. E. Darwin   [13 February 1859]

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Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [13 Feb 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2414

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  • … To W.  E. Darwin   [13 February 1859] …
  • … in mathematics. See letter to W.  E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] and n.  6. CD stayed at Moor …
  • W.  E. Darwin, [3 May 1858] ). John Thurston had introduced the slate billiard-table in 1836 ( EB ). Henry J.  Dickinson was a billiard-table manufacturer at 84 Gray’s Inn Lane in London ( Post Office London directory 1859). …

To John Lubbock   [25 May 1861]

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Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [25 May 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3158

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  • … see ibid . , vol.  7, letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 7 July [1859] ). …
  • W.  E.  Darwin, [25 May 1861] . High Elms, the home of the Lubbock family, was on the far side of Down village, approximately 1 1 2 miles from Down House. William in 1857 was in the sixth form, the top year in Rugby School (see Correspondence vol.  6, letter to Syms Covington, 22 February 1857 ). William had won a scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1859 ( …

To W. E. Darwin   7 July [1859]

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Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.

Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  7 July [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476

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  • … To W.  E. Darwin   7 July [1859] …
  • Darwin returned from the home of the Langtons, in Hartfield, on 7 July 1859. The wallpaper was for the new drawing room of Down House. CD was trying to sell the horse he had only just bought for William. See letter to W.  E. Darwin,3 June [1859] . …

To W. E. Darwin   [14 October 1859]

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Discusses events at Ilkley.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [14 Oct 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2498

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To W. E. Darwin   14 [March 1859]

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Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2431

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To W. E. Darwin   [5 May 1859]

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Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [5 May 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2442

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To J. D. Hooker   15 October [1859]

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Book finished some two weeks.

Feeling much better at Ilkley.

Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.

Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Oct [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2504

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  • … Hooker 1859 . See letter to W.  E. Darwin, [14 October 1859] . CD recorded that he ‘ …

From John James Aubertin   27 April 1863

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Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;

describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.

Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.

Author:  John James Aubertin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 159: 123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4129

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  • … October 1859] , and letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [14 October 1859] ). In a letter to William …

To W. E. Darwin   9 May [1861]

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Discusses family and domestic matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  9 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3145

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  • … Correspondence vol.  7, letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 25 [August 1859] . CD refers to ‘Notes …

To J. D. Hooker   9 May [1862]

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Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.

Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.

"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".

Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3541

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  • … letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] . From January 1857 until January 1859, Miss Pugh …

From Edward Levett Darwin   7 September 1863

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Glad to find they are cousins.

Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].

Author:  Edward Levett Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Sept 1863
Classmark:  DAR 99: 17–18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4295

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  • Darwin to W.  D.  Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The two parts of Edward Darwin’s Game preserver’s manual dealt with the prevention of poaching and the ‘destruction of vermin’; in the latter part he stated that, of the traps in common use, ‘the steel trap stands, as it always must, pre-eminent’ ( [E.  L.  Darwin] 1859 , …

To John Innes   6 September [1860]

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Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.

Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".

Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  6 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2907

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n.  5). William Waker Phillips lived at Down Hall farm ( Post Office directory for the six home counties 1859). …

From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood   25 December [1860?]

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Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.

Author:  Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Dec [1860?]
Classmark:  DAR 181
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3030

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, [30 July 1860]. Probably Frederick Smith , a farmer residing at Thornhill farm, Hartfield, Sussex ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1859). …

To John Innes   18 July [1860]

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Henrietta’s illness.

CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.

Other family news.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  18 July [1860]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2870

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, 14 [May 1858] ). Joseph Parslow was the Darwins’ butler. CD possibly refers to William Baxter , the dispensing chemist in Bromley, Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1859). …

To W. E. Darwin   [10 May 1863]

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Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.

Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [10 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4151

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  • W.  E.  Darwin, 8 May [1863] and n.  5. As part of his investigations into the relationship between the structure of flowers and insect pollination, CD carried out a series of observations and experiments on Corydalis lutea ( Pseudofumaria lutea ) in 1858, 1859, …

To W. E. Darwin   15 November [1861]

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Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  15 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3319

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  • W.  E. Darwin, 22 October [1861] and [27 October 1861] ). Thomas Samuel Fox was an ensign in the corps. After the immediate fear of invasion of England by France had subsided, many members of the voluntary rifle corps, who had first joined in 1859, …

To F. J. Cohn   8 August 1877

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Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  8 Aug 1877
Classmark:  Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11095

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  • 1859 ) has been found. Agaricus muscarius is a synonym of Amanita muscaria , the fly agaric mushroom. Francis Darwin moved back into Down House after the death of his wife, Amy, in September 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. E. …
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