DCP-LETT-7421
Summary
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7421 |
DCP-LETT-7839A
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7839A |
From William Graham to Francis Darwin [after 20 April 1882]
Summary
Sends enclosed letters and hopes they are not too late. Letter of 8 July 1881 important because it contains clear statement of CD’s attitude to religious questions.
| Author: | William Graham |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 483 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769G |
From Francis Darwin to Raphael Meldola 12 January 1882
Summary
CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13611 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait [30 March 1882]
Summary
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | [30 Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13749 |
To the Darwin children 8 January 1882
Summary
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13603 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Elizabeth Darwin, Francis Darwin, G. H. Darwin, Horace Darwin, …
- … Down 8 Jan 1882 Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin Francis Darwin George Howard Darwin Horace …
- … Elizabeth Darwin , George Howard Darwin , Francis Darwin , Leonard Darwin , and Horace …
- … Francis 492 Leonard 492 Horace 492 R. B. Litchfield 287. — —So William please send this circular to Henrietta & she to Horace. The others have seen it here. — I do not know whether the money will be distributed at once or in a week’s time after money on Deposit has been placed to my current account. Ch. Darwin …
DCP-LETT-2055
| Author: | Edmund Langton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2055 |
From James Niven to Francis Darwin 12 March 1882
Summary
Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.
| Author: | James Niven |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726 |
From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin 22 February 1882
Summary
Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.
Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13697F |
DCP-LETT-8059
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8059 |
From Francis Galton 23 March 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for an article [unspecified].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13735 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Galton, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 105: A109 Francis Galton London, Rutland Gate, 42 23 Mar 1882 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin Best thanks for the American article, which is certainly suggestive, where paradoxical. It is delightful to find that virtue mainly resides in large & business-like families, fond of science and of arithmetic! It eminently hits off the character of your own family & in some fainter degree of my brothers & sisters, and of all Quakerism. I hope your are quite well again | With our kindest remembrances | Ever y rs . Francis …
From Michael Foster 18 January 1882
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the sensitivity of plants in light and darkness and Julius Wiesner’s assumptions [in Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13623 |
To J. D. Cooper 4 February 1882
Summary
Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Davis Cooper |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13658 |
From W. D. Crick 24 February 1882
Summary
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
| Author: | Walter Drawbridge Crick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13705 |
To Francis Galton 22 March [1882]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13732 |
From G. C. Robertson to G. J. Romanes 21 January 1882
Summary
Returns CD’s letter concerning testimonial fund for Grant Allen.
| Author: | George Croom Robertson |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13633 |
From A. V. Dicey 25 February 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.
| Author: | Albert Venn Dicey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13709 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 18 March 1882
Summary
CD invited to [Science Defence Association] meeting at Royal College of Physicians.
| Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13729 |
To J. D. Cooper 22 February 1882
Summary
Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Davis Cooper |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13698 |
To W. D. Crick 25 February 1882
Summary
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Drawbridge Crick |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36224) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13707 |
| letter | (33) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Crick, W. D. | (1) |
| Cooper, J. D. | (2) |
| Crick, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Reade, A. A. | (1) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Galton, Francis | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (3) |
| Cooper, J. D. | (2) |
