From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
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- … Darwin (who is our first Cousin & Grandson of D r . Eras: Darwin) has many papers, especially the “Common place book” & others of interest, which I am sure he would be very pleased to lend you, as he always has sent us anything we wanted to see, of the Darwin family— This reminds me of an anecdote, that my Father, & also M r . Leonard Horner used to tell, that when our Uncle, Sir Francis Darwin …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
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- … Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a founder member of the Sunday Tramps, a society for vigorous rural walking within convenient railway distance from London ( ODNB s.v. Sunday Tramps). They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was Francis’ …
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
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- … Léonard de Sismondi in Geneva and Chêne between November 1826 and June 1827 ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 1: 245–74; Healey 2001 , p. 105); they had made a shorter visit with other members of their family in 1825 ( Healey 2001 , pp. 96–7). Candolle visited Down on 27 September 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Asa Gray, 30 September 18[80] and n. 2). Francis …
To W. D. Fox [17 January 1850]
Summary
Account of the birth of Leonard Darwin, during which he administered the chloroform to Emma.
Continues the water-cure.
Has begun work on fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1292 |
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- … Leonard Darwin , 15 January 1850. Charles Henry Lardner Woodd of Oughtershaw Hall, Yorkshire, was the brother of Ellen Sophia Woodd , who had become Fox’s second wife in 1846. Woodd had been elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1846. There are earlier references to the use of chloroform ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 , and letter to Francis …
To George Varenne Reed 8 September [1856]
Summary
George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2139 |
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- … Darwin’s diary for 5 September 1856 that reads: ‘G. came from school the boys meet him at the Crystal Palace’. George Howard Darwin came home on 5 September and returned to Clapham Grammar School on 8 September ( Emma Darwin’s diary). George Varenne Reed had been George Darwin’s tutor before he entered Clapham School. CD later sent Francis, Leonard, …
From G. H. Darwin [after 6 April 1864?]
Summary
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 6 Apr 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453F |
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- … Darwin, [after 5 April 1864 ? ]. For his work with Clematis , CD had asked George how many milligrams were in one English grain (see letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 5 April 1864 ? ] and n. 3). The note to Emma Darwin , written on the back of the calculations, could have been written by George, or by one of the Darwins’ other sons, Leonard or Francis, …
To W. E. Darwin 4 November [1861]
Summary
Reports events at Down;
has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3307 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 February 1869
Summary
Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.
Tells of his visit to Eton.
Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6604 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 [May 1864]
Summary
Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],
and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.
The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.
On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.
[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4510 |
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Summary
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Summary
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
From Douglas Fox to W. de W. Abney 7 June 1879
Summary
Regrets he knows little of Dr Erasmus Darwin, but relates anecdotes told him by his father, Dr Fox of Derby.
| Author: | Douglas Fox |
| Addressee: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Date: | 7 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12093 |
From G. H. Darwin [9–15 June 1863]
Summary
Discusses some angles [relating to phyllotaxy].
The forthcoming school holidays.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9–15 June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4209 |
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- … Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]. CD’s notes on phyllotaxy are in DAR 51: A6–32; there are also notes by George on this subject in DAR 192: 1–7. See memorandum from G. H. Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]. George refers to the annual cricket match between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which took place at Lord’s cricket ground in London on 22 and 23 June 1863 ( Cambridge University calendar ). Francis and Leonard Darwin …
To Ernst Krause 7 July 1879
Summary
Sends proofs of his preface [to EK’s Erasmus Darwin], with which he is disappointed. Suggests additions and improvements he would like to make.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 7 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12136 |
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- … Leonard Darwin, [before 12 July] 1879 ). Krause had revised his biographical sketch, including material that evidently duplicated some of CD’s essay (see letter to Ernst Krause, 5 June 1879 , and letter from Ernst Krause, 13 June 1879 ). Erasmus Darwin was published by John Murray (1808–92) in November; it contained a portrait of Erasmus Darwin as the frontispiece and two woodcuts ( ibid. , pp. 3, 125). The relations have not been identified, but CD’s wife, Emma Darwin , and sons George and Francis …
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
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- … Leonard Darwin ( Freeman 1978 ). CD was collecting information on the secretion of tears for his research on the expression of emotions. In Expression , pp. 153–4,CD claimed that tears were usually only slightly secreted in very young infants, and began to roll over their eyelids and down their cheeks when they reached about four months of age. Lena and Edmund Langton’s second child was Stephen Langton Massingberd , born 12 May 1869 ( Burke’s landed gentry ). Francis …
From John Lubbock 25 October 1862
Summary
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3781 |
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- … Francis Galton was CD’s cousin. In 1862, the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Cambridge from 1 to 8 October. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that Lubbock dined at Down House on Friday 31 October 1862; she also noted: ‘Ch. attack of sickness in night but not so bad’. Emma and Leonard …
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
To H. A. Huxley 28 July 1875
Summary
Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Date: | 28 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 318) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098 |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (21) |
| Darwin, Francis | (14) |
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