From Sara Sedgwick Darwin [3 December 1877]
Summary
Describes her and W. E. Darwin’s honeymoon.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267F |
From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11159 |
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- … From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877] …
- … 20 Sara Sedgwick/Sara Darwin London, Elgin Crescent, 23 [30 Sept 1877] Charles Robert …
- … letter and the letter to Sara Sedgwick, 29 September [1877] . In 1877, 30 September was a …
- … 1877] , CD had expressed his pleasure at her engagement to his son William Erasmus Darwin . See letter to Sara Sedgwick, …
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877
Summary
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11190 |
From W. D. Fox 12 February [1878]
Summary
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11355 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1877
Summary
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11227 |
From B. J. Sulivan 25 December 1877
Summary
BJS was pleased to see CD’s son [William] and his wife at Charles Langton’s.
His own son is preparing for marriage.
Reports meeting a former Beagle shipmate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11288 |
From Leonard Darwin 28 November 1877
Summary
LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11256 |
From W. D. Fox 29 November [1877]
Summary
Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,
and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11261 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877
Summary
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11247 |
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Sara | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (2) |
