From Francis Darwin [4 May 1875]
Summary
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9961G |
To H. W. Jackson 15 July 1880
Summary
Thanks HWJ for his kind note. If the weather had been better CD could have made the visit [of the Lewisham & Blackheath Scientific Association] more agreeable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry William Jackson |
| Date: | 15 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12652 |
To W. D. Fox 16 April [1858]
Summary
Asks WDF for facts about stripes in horses and ponies.
Health has been very bad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 112a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2256 |
From Gerard Krefft 22 October 1874
Summary
After a conflict with the Museum’s trustees, he has been brutally evicted from his home and office. Plans to leave Australia and asks CD’s help.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9694 |
To Susan Darwin [27 November 1844?]
Summary
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1844?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-833 |
To P. G. King 16 November [1862]
Summary
J. C. Wickham, B. J. Sulivan, and Arthur Mellersh visited a fortnight ago.
Oldest son [William] now a banker.
Sends photograph.
Health too bad to see anyone at present. Rarely sees FitzRoy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Gidley King |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3809 |
From F. S. B. François de Chaumont 29 April 1874
Summary
Observations on early shedding of tears and shrugging of shoulders.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9433 |
From James Buckman 10 October 1864
Summary
Sends a poem about sowing kidney beans.
| Author: | James Buckman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.6a: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631F |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [17 December 1836]
Summary
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-328 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
Summary
Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2215 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Carus, Julius Victor, trans. 1877a. Geologische Beobachtungen über die vulcanischen Inseln. By Charles Darwin. (German translation of Volcanic islands 2d ed.) Vol. 11, part 2 of Charles Darwin’s gesammelte Werke. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch).
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [24 September – 10 October 1868]
Summary
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6339 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
To E. R. Lankester 13 October [1881]
Summary
Says that salt water kills earthworms.
Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13396 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4495 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. 6, and [10 …
- … E. Darwin, 18 April 1864 and n. 3, and 12 May [1864] and nn. 3 and 4). CD is referring to William’s letter of 12 May [1864] and to his earlier letter of 4 May [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11) …
- … E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] , n. 2, and ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , pp. 171–4 ( Collected papers 2: 108–9). As a result of this, and other structural differences between the two forms that he had observed, he concluded that many heterostyled plants were ‘tending to become diœcious’ ( Forms of flowers , p. 257), or in some cases what he later called gyno-dioecious; in either case, the anthers would become rudimentary in the long-styled form (see nn. 8, 11, …
To John Lubbock [November 1858]
Summary
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2331 |
To Ernst Krause 14 March 1879
Summary
Pleased to hear that EK agrees to CD’s request to have article on Erasmus Darwin translated. Will wait for EK’s enlargement. Has decided submission to Fortnightly Review would be useless.
Warns against Anna Seward’s biography of Dr Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11932 |
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