To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
To Friend Lewin 16 April [1872]
Summary
Suggests FL and Dr Maudsley come to Down via Chislehurst.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend Lewin |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden, Manuscripts |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8289 |
From J. J. Weir 23 March 1868
Summary
Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 61–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6041 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864]
Summary
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4471 |
To John Lubbock 20 July [1860]
Summary
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 20 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40a (EH 88206447) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2874 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
From Thomas Brittain 30 November 1876
Summary
Informs CD about Apocynum androsaemifolium, an insectivorous plant not mentioned in CD’s book. Offers to send specimen.
| Author: | Thomas Brittain |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10693 |
Wedgwood, L. C. (1846–1919)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista. 3,6,10,11,12,13,14,15,18,19,20,22,24,WSL,26,28,29 Wedgwood, Caroline Wedgwood, Josiah, III Darwin, C. R. …
To J. D. Hooker [30 October 1863]
Summary
Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4324 |
From J. J. Weir 31 July 1872
Summary
On variegated leaves; a feature not inherited consistently.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8440 |
From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker 25 October 1868
Summary
His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
| Author: | Sven Nilsson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6430 |
From J. J. Weir 7 March 1868
Summary
Various facts about birds: pairing, finding new mates, protective coloration, polygamy, sexual differences.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A21–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5995 |
From George Gordon to John Hutton Balfour 1 July 1861
Summary
Asks whether one of Balfour’s students could obtain specimens of Corallorhiza from Ravelrig bog outside Edinburgh for CD.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Date: | 1 July 1861 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3198F |
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