Adams, A. L. (1827–82)
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- … Andrew Leith Adams 1827–82 Army surgeon and naturalist. Appointed army surgeon, 1848; …
Peter Lawson & Son
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- … and calendar . Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith directory. Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Hughes [ …
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 December 1878
Summary
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11796 |
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
Anderson, Isaac (1800–84)
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- … and calendar . Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith directory. Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Hughes [ …
From Francis Darwin [4–7 August 1878]
Summary
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–7 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11632 |
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 |
Williams & Norgate
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- … and calendar . Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith directory. Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Hughes [ …
Duguid, William (b. c. 1849 d. 1923)
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- … 1871 (The National Archives of Scotland: Leith North 20/13) F. Darwin 1920a , pp. 58–9 …
Rusden, H. K. (1826–1910)
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- … public servant and polemicist. Born at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey. Emigrated …
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1871
Summary
Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8046 |
To Roland Trimen 13 November [1871]
Summary
Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8064 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 August 1869
Summary
Speculates on the function of the separate stamen of papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857 |
To [Henry Huntsman?] 5 June [1877]
Summary
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Huntsman |
| Date: | 5 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10984A |
To W. E. Darwin 22 April [1879]
Summary
Discusses his work on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12007 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
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Leith
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What to take
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- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
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Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
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- … the Darwins set off on a round of visits to relatives at Leith Hill and Abinger in Surrey, and then …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … exhibition, ‘in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place’; i.e. Sophy Wedgwood, daughter …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … world of sea creatures he could observe on the beach at Leith. His first paper, in March 1827, …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … of fieldwork undertaken in the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Montague Street in London in March, visited the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place in June, stayed with …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … yards of ground were marked out near the Wedgwoods’ home, Leith Hill Place in Surrey, and CD’s niece …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … William and his wife Sara, and visits to the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place, and the Farrers at …
