From Henrietta Emma Darwin [1 August 1863]
Summary
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 189: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260F |
From Edward Cresy 27 April 1863
Summary
CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4130 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: 2232. …
- … on 7 April 1863 when Cresy visited Down House for lunch (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … Darwin competed unsuccessfully for an entrance scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge ( DNB ). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , …
From John Goodsir 21 August [1863]
Summary
Agrees to examine a slide preparation of fluid [from CD’s vomit] to determine presence of Sarcina as a possible cause of his stomach ailment. Sends some authoritative references on it. Warns CD that Sarcina has been found in healthy stomachs.
| Author: | John Goodsir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4272 |
From W. D. Fox 29 May [1863]
Summary
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4193 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [ …
- … John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [ …
- … Emma Darwin to John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Scott began experimenting with a non-dimorphic cowslip in May 1863 ( …
From Daniel Oliver 17 February 1863
Summary
DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8770 |
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). See also letter …
- … and Emma Darwin. ] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] Correspondence : The …
- … Darwin was CD’s first cousin, son of his father’s half-brother, Francis Sacheverel Darwin ( Darwin pedigree ). No other correspondence between CD and Edward Darwin has been found. Emma Darwin had apparently sent for a copy of the fourth, ‘considerably enlarged’ edition of Edward Darwin’s Game preserver’s manual , which was published in 1863 ( …
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 April [1863]
Summary
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11, letter from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] ). Henrietta Emma Darwin’s letter has not been …
- … Emma Darwin had reported that George Howard Darwin was staying on to ‘grind’ at Clapham Grammar School ( DAR 219.1: 71); according to Emma’s diary (DAR 242), George returned from school on 23 April 1863. …
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 21 [January 1863]
Summary
Will be glad to have CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3399 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
From John Lubbock 28 February 1863
Summary
Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4017 |
From W. D. Fox 7 September [1863]
Summary
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4296 |
From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1862
Summary
Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.
He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 17–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3465 |
From John Lubbock 14 October 1863
Summary
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4320 |
From John Lubbock 6 March 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4029 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 or 3 November 1863]
Summary
Anxious to see Haast’s letter.
JDH’s views on Poles and Franco-Prussian conflict.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 or 3] Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 173–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4325 |
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| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
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| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Boott, Mary | (1) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Caldwell, Anne | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
| Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (84) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Goodsir, John | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Haast, Julius von | (3) |
| Hardcastle, Mary | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Langton, E. C. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Marsh, Anne | (1) |
| Marsh-Caldwell, Anne | (1) |
| Massingberd, E. C. | (1) |
| Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
| Reed, G. V. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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