From W. E. Darwin [27 February 1882]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347F |
From W. E. Darwin 23 March 1882
Summary
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13734F |
From W. E. Darwin 16 January [1882]
Summary
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13619F |
From W. E. Darwin 13 March 1882
Summary
Sends a dividend cheque.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726F |
From W. E. Darwin 28 February [1882]
Summary
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13711F |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13613 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January [1882]
Summary
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672F |
From W. E. Darwin 2 February [1882]
Summary
Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13654F |
From Leslie Stephen 12 January 1882
Summary
Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen
and a recent visit to Down.
Author: | Leslie Stephen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13614 |
From J. W. Judd 8 January 1882
Summary
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13604 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Judd, J. W. | (1) |
Stephen, Leslie | (1) |