From Karl Beger [c. 12 February 1879]
Summary
Birthday wishes.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 12 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11854 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
To H. E. Darwin 20 March 1871
Summary
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605 |
To Bartholomew James Sulivan 24 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks BJS for account of Mendoza earthquake.
FitzRoy sent CD the last London Review [& Weekly J. Polit.] and he read the article on Genesis, but feels it is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 24 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3156 |
To Ernst Krause [12 December 1880]
Summary
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36203) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12465 |
Matches: 1 hit
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 1 September [1875?]
Summary
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10146 |
To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3439 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
To T. M. Reade 9 December 1880
Summary
Comments on TMR’s "Oceanic islands" [Geol. Mag. 8 (1881): 75–7]. Fact that oceanic islands are all volcanic argues for view that no continent ever occupied the oceans. Chalk seemed best evidence of ocean having existed where continent now stands. CD leans to view that continents have occupied present positions since Cambrian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12901 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To W. D. Fox 11 May [1874]
Summary
Has just finished new editions of Descent
and Coral reefs.
Is working on a book almost wholly on Drosera; thinks he has made some discoveries.
Will never have strength and life to complete more of the series of books related to Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 11 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 153) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9454 |
From W. D. Fox 12 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4037 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , travelled to Shrewsbury to sort out some of the family belongings in the house (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from E. A. Darwin, 11 October [1866] ). The remaining contents were put on sale from 19 to 24 November 1866 ( Shrewsbury Chronicle , 16 November 1866; see also Correspondence vol. 14, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
From Emma Darwin [23 April 1851]
Summary
Tells of the hopes raised by CD’s letter of Monday regarding Anne’s health.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1411 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin (1915) 2: 132). Caroline refers to the grief she and Josiah Wedgwood III experienced when Sophy Marianne Wedgwood , their first child, died at the age of seven weeks in January 1839. William Erasmus Darwin , CD’s oldest son, then 11 years old. Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who lived at Petleys, close to Down House. Francis Darwin , then nearly 2 1 2 years old. The final paragraph, written in pencil, refers to a letter …
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, 15 November [1874] (DAR 239.23: 1.24), she mentioned that Lucy Caroline Harrison (a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood III ) and her husband Matthew James Harrison , together with Josiah Wedgwood III’s family from Leith Hill Place, stayed at Down. They left on Wednesday 11 November ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George was writing on political economy and thought the topic might be suitable for a lecture he had been invited to give at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ( letter …
To W. D. Fox [25 January 1841]
Summary
Birds has gone to the printer.
Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".
Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-586 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin was born on 2 March 1841. Sir Tunbelly Clumsy is a character in two plays: John Vanbrugh’s The relapse (1696) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s A trip to Scarborough (1777) ( Oxford companion to English literature ). Wedgwood had conscientious objections to oaths he considered unnecessary and had resigned a position as police magistrate rather than administer them (see Correspondence vol. 1, letters from Catherine Darwin , 27 November 1833 ; from Caroline Darwin , 30 December [1833] – 3 January 1834; letter to W. D. Fox, [ 11 …
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary records that the children went to Leith Hill Place, the home of Caroline Sarah Wedgwood and Josiah Wedgwood III , on 19 August 1859. CD and Emma joined them on 20 August. Emma and Henrietta 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 …
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s fifth tooth was ‘nearly through’ on 23 July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1920b , p. 6), so this letter must have been written a month or two earlier, from the reference to Bernard’s first two teeth. CD and Emma Darwin were away from home from 8 June until 4 July, visiting first Caroline Sarah and Josiah Wedgwood at Leith Hill Place in Surrey, then moving on to visit William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton on 13 June (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Francis evidently stayed in Down for the first part of their absence (see letter from Francis Darwin, 11 …
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| Beger, Karl | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Fox, W. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
