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To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer   [before 25 June 1859]

Summary

Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.

Author:  Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin
Addressee:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer
Date:  [before 25 June 1859]
Classmark:  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2472

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  • … Darwin, Francis Darwin, Leonard Darwin, Horace Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer …
  • … 6 (1859): 99 Francis Darwin Leonard Darwin Horace Darwin Down [before 25 June 1859] …
  • … to insert this little notice in the ‘Intelligencer. ’— Francis, Leonard & Horace Darwin. …
  • … letter was signed ‘Francis, Leonard & Horace Darwin ’, CD composed and sent it ( LL 2: …

To George Howard Darwin   24 [February 1859]

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Summary

Writes about their new billiard table.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  24 [Feb 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2420

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  • … was 10 years old; Leonard Darwin was 9; Horace Darwin was 8. According to Francis Darwin , …

To W. E. Darwin   3 June [1859]

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Reports events at Down.

Is busy with proofs [of Origin];

is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  3 June [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2467

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  • … 1858). Skimp was a nickname for Horace Darwin , then aged 8. For the boys’ interest in …

To Elizabeth Drysdale   [22 or 29 October 1859]

Summary

Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.

He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale
Date:  [22 or 29] Oct 1859
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2498A

Matches: 1 hit

  • … and probably Leonard and Horace), arrived on 17 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); …

To Charles Lyell   2 September [1859]

Summary

CL’s research on flint tools.

Promises to send proof-sheets of Origin. Discusses his view of species.

Ill health of himself and his family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  2 Sept [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.167)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2486

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  • Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Hutchinson, Horace

To John Lubbock   14 December [1859]

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Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  14 Dec [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2584

Matches: 1 hit

  • Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Hutchinson, Horace

To W. E. Darwin   14 [March 1859]

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Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2431

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  • Darwin recounted the incident in a letter to William (DAR 210.6): Solemn events have happened. M rs Grut is gone for ever. this is how it came about. On Monday at breakfast mama said very civilly that she wanted some alteration in Horace’ …