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 [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 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 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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 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 …
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 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
- … letter to G. H. Darwin and W. E. Darwin, 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 …
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: 1 hit
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] , n. 2, and ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , pp. 171–4 ( Collected papers 2: 108–9). As a result of this, and other structural differences between the two forms that he had observed, he concluded that many heterostyled plants were ‘tending to become diœcious’ ( Forms of flowers , p. 257), or in some cases what he later called gyno-dioecious; in either case, the anthers would become rudimentary in the long-styled form (see nn. 8, 11, 13, …
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 |
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, W. E. | |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
