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: 2 hits
- … in the long-styled form (see nn. 8, 11, 13, and 14, below, and Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … 13, below). CD crossed the different forms of Pulmonaria angustifolia in 1864 and 1865; for CD’s experimental notes on these crosses, see DAR 110: A44–55; for his published results, see Forms of flowers , pp. 107–10. In 1863, CD had evidently speculated on whether Pulmonaria angustifolia might represent a transition from heterostyly to what he later called ‘gyno-dioecism’, in which species include hermaphrodite and female individuals on different plants; he had already observed gyno-dioecious forms in Thymus and Echium (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Summary
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
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 W. E. Darwin 13 September [1881]
Summary
Discusses financial affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13334 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
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 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 [December 1856]
Summary
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 [Dec 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2019 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13 [November 1856]). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, the Darwin boys stayed with Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood until Saturday, 27 December, which was William Darwin’s birthday. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary on 26 December, ‘came down to breakfast’. CD recorded spending £5 at the sale of Sarah Wedgwood’s goods. An entry in his Account book (Down House MS) on 11 …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 February 1862, and recorded in her diary the commencement of an acid treatment on 14 February (DAR 242). Camilla Ludwig was governess to the Darwin children. CD refers to the lunch party at John Lubbock’s on 15 February 1862 to which, in addition to Joseph Dalton Hooker , George and Ellen Busk had been invited (see letter from John Lubbock, 13 …
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 16 April 1871
Summary
Answers to questions about expression.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7688 |
To W. E. Darwin [8 December 1860]
Summary
Asks identity of [Henry] Fawcett, who wrote a capital article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [3 (1860): 81–92], "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Dec 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3014 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [November 1862]
Summary
Discusses a crossing experiment.
Has been counting the seeds in pods [of Lythrum?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3682 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13 October. In addition, his tally of the seeds from twenty-one pods collected from plants grown in his garden and pollinated by insects, is in DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 53, dated 17 October 1862. CD’s results from the crosses made with this species in 1862 are also recorded in DAR 27.2 (ser. 2). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and n. 11. …
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Summary
Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13, and Forms of flowers , pp. 298–303). CD had discovered the phenomenon later called heterostyly in Primula , in which the existence of two flower-forms (long-styled and short-styled) assists cross-pollination (see ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ and Forms of flowers , pp. 14–50). Information on the white broom ( Cytisus multiflorus ) may have been in the missing portion of the letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 May – 11 …
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Summary
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
