From John James Aubertin 27 April 1863
Summary
Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;
describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.
Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4129 |
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The two parts of Edward Darwin’s Game preserver’s manual dealt with the prevention of poaching and the ‘destruction of vermin’; in the latter part he stated that, of the traps in common use, ‘the steel trap stands, as it always must, pre-eminent’ ( [E. L. Darwin] 1859 , …
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
From W. E. Darwin [17 November 1861]
Summary
Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3320 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. E. Darwin, 4 November [1861] ). Francis and George Howard Darwin , who attended Clapham Grammar School, came home for the weekend on Saturday, 9 November 1861. William returned to Down House for Christmas, arriving on 24 December ( Emma Darwin’s diary). John Henry Forrest , who lived in Winchester, was chief constable of Hampshire ( Post Office directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire 1859), …
From William Alexander Wooler 5 July 1862
Summary
Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.
Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.
Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.
| Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3642 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. E. Darwin, 9 May [1861] . The subject is discussed in Variation 1: 55–63. The journal, the full name of which was The Field, the Farm, the Garden. The Country Gentleman’s Newspaper , does not appear to have published Wooler’s observations on striping in ponies. John Henry Walsh . Lupton and Walsh 1861, p. 31. Walsh 1859 , …
From J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1862]
Summary
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [June 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3611 |
From Mary Butler [before 25 December 1862]
Summary
J. P. Thom [of Home News] must change his position because of his health. Asks if CD can help find him a new situation.
| Author: | Mary Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 392 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3838 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1859] ( Correspondence vol. 7). CD’s Account book–banking accounts (Down House MS) records payment on 1 January 1863 of £20 under the entry ‘Mr Thom Present’. See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. P. Thom, 14 January 1863 . Mr Davenport has not been identified. Emma had been encouraging CD to grow a beard (see letter to W. E. Darwin, …
| letter | (7) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
