To G. H. Darwin 14 [July 1878]
Summary
Writes to say that the point on which he thought GHD’s drawings were mistaken proves to be an error in his own observation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11606 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1878]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 477–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11794 |
From Thomas Whitelegge 21 May 1878
Summary
Gynodioecism.
| Author: | Thomas Whitelegge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11522 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 October [1878]
Summary
Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11727 |
Matches: 1 hit
To T. H. Farrer 7 March 1878
Summary
If THF and James Caird [Enclosure Commissioner] approve of enclosed letter, CD will send it to Hooker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 92; Linnean Society of London (MS 489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11407 |
To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
To G. J. Romanes 16 June [1878]
Summary
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 16 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11555 |
To J. F. Fisher 8 August [1878]
Summary
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Fisher |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 to 15 August, they stayed at Abinger, Surrey, the home of Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer, who was Emma Darwin’s niece. Lastly, they travelled to Barlaston, Staffordshire, the home of Emma’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his family, and returned home on 22 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). No separate manuscript has been found, but see the letter from J. F. Fisher, 13 …
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| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Whitelegge, Thomas | (1) |
