From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 10 April 1875
Summary
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9922A |
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
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- … s manservant ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 12 November [1876] (DAR 239.23: …
- … Emma Darwin stayed with William until Wednesday 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). There were three Thursdays between 4 and 24 July, but given William’s own recent absence, this letter could not have been written on the first Thursday, which leaves 12 …
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1870
Summary
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7197 |
From Edward Blyth 8 September 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6358 |
From Francis Galton 15 March 1870
Summary
Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7133 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 July 1862
Summary
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3657 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe, Lord Cranworth 28 November 1862
Summary
Sends cheque to CD for Down parish charities.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3833 |
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
From John Beck 15 May 1869
Summary
Sends his MS "The real presence" [on transubstantiation] for CD’s comments.
| Author: | John Beck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6747 |
From E. S. Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314 |
From George Howard Darwin [12 June 1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598F |
From M. C. Stanley 14 September 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10157 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [27 August – 1 September 1865]
Summary
JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4603 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
| Author: | Charles Pritchard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
From W. E. Darwin [9 November 1879]
Summary
Sends CD petition from Olmstead and asks him to forward it around to get good signatures.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Nov 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 74), Gardner 1880, pp. 31–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12301F |
From G. H. Darwin 13 July 1879
Summary
Sorry to hear Henrietta’s opinion of the [Erasmus Darwin] proofs. GHD did not think it dull. He makes some suggestions.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12154 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
From G. H. Darwin 5 December 1874
Summary
Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.
Describes other work in progress.
Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9743 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (12) |
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