From Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.
CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871?] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8127 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, F. J. …
- … V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570) Charles Robert Darwin Emma …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood [after 11 March 1871] …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [after 11 Mar 1871? ] Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood …
- … but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views. CD …
- … is in CD’s hand and was intended for Emma Darwin to copy in a letter to Wedgwood, whose …
- … Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
To T. H. Huxley [11 or 18 May 1871]
Summary
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [11 or 18] May 1871 |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541F |
From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Emma …
- … St, London [5 Nov 1871] Charles Robert Darwin Emma …
- … From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871] …
- … DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield 6 Queen Anne …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. …
- … Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood . St George’s Hall was a function room in Langham Place, Regent Street, London. William George Clark , a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently published a tract that was critical of Anglican orthodoxy ( ODNB ). Anne Parslow was probably Henrietta’s lady’s maid, and Elizabeth Pearce , who as Bessy Harding had been the Darwin …
To J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 77 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Mar 1871 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … 11 March 1871 and n. 8; see also Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 240). Henrietta was visiting …
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1871
Summary
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7877 |
Matches: 4 hits
From G. H. Darwin [17 July 1871]
Summary
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 July 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7841 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … had evidently discussed Henrietta Emma Darwin’s marriage settlement with him. Henrietta …
- … 1871 and married him on 31 August ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 204). Henrietta and Elizabeth …
- … This visit to London is not recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) or CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …
To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Huxley ; see letter from J. D Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 and n. 4. See, …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 . CD refers to Hooker’s …
- … to visit the Darwins (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). …
- … In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry …
- … lived in Southampton. In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked …
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 16, letter from W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 28 February [1868] , and letter from W. …
- … see the letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 February 1871 . Henrietta Emma Darwin had an attack …
- … of measles in January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Following the Elementary Education …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin lived at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. CD and Emma stayed at Erasmus’s …
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Summary
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
To Asa Gray 16 July [1871]
Summary
CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7867 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1977 ). The list of places has not been found. In September 1871, Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that George Howard and Francis Darwin were on …
- … en route for California ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [12 September 1871] ( …
- … tour ( letter from Frances Allen to Emma Darwin, 10 November [1871] (DAR 219.11: 13)). …
To H. E. Litchfield [after 5] November 1871
Summary
CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [after 5] Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 29 January 1871
Summary
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7463 |
From Karl Scherzer 28 May 1871
Summary
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9998 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was engaged to marry …
- … Richard Buckley Litchfield (see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). St George Jackson Mivart’s …
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
To B. J. Sulivan 13 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 13 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7579 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
To H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8134 |
To Louisa Stevenson 8 April 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louisa Stevenson |
Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7669F |
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Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Darwin, H. E. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (5) |
McLennan, J. F. | (1) |
Morgan, L. H. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (3) |
Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
Strutt, J. W. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Darwin, H. E. | (5) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (5) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |