To Friedrich Hildebrand 25 June [1864]
Summary
Thanks for orchids.
Recovering from nine months’ illness.
Discusses fertilisation of Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 25 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4545 |
To W. W. Baxter 4 September 1873
Summary
Orders list of chemical salts. Ashamed to order from Hopkins and Williams because they charge him such an extremely low rate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (August 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9042 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 Cavendish Street, London, and a factory in Wandsworth, Surrey ( Post Office London directory 1872). CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS) record that he paid Hopkin and Williams £1 2 s . on 14 August 1873. The enclosure has not been found. It was probably a list of some of the chemicals CD used when he was experimenting on what substances caused the inflection of Drosera (sundew) leaves (see Insectivorous plants , pp. 174–6). See also letter to Francis Darwin, [ …
To Emma Darwin [7–8 February 1845]
Summary
Mainly news of the three children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [7–8 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-810 |
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- … Francis Negus, British soldier (d. 1732). ’ ( OED ). CD had difficulties acquiring some strips of land over which access to Down House was gained and other small plots adjacent to his property. This note may refer to the land under discussion in Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Susan Darwin, [8 December 1843] . See also Correspondence vol. 4, letter to John Higgins, 10 …
To J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
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- … 10, letter from J. B. Innes, 2 January [1862] and n. 1). George Sketchley Ffinden , who had become vicar of Down in 1871, had a fractious relationship with CD and Emma Darwin (see Correspondence vols. 23 and 24). Stanley Hoole was living at Down Lodge in 1878 ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1878); his wife, Alice Mary Hoole , was Innes’s niece. Francis …
To W. B. Cheadle 31 January 1879
Summary
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Butler Cheadle |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11852 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1864]
Summary
CD’s Lythrum paper has given him as much satisfaction as working out complemental males in cirripedes.
Response to award of Copley Medal.
Letters from Germany and France support natural selection.
Now that climbing plants are done, CD asks for Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 254a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4682 |
To Asa Gray 26 November [1860]
Summary
Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.
Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.
Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2998 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
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- … 10 to 17 January 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The medium hired by George Howard Darwin was Charles E. Williams (see Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 269). George Henry Lewes and Marian Evans (George Eliot) were also present. The séance took place on 16 January 1874, and accounts written by those present are at Cambridge University Library, in the papers of the Society for Psychical Research (CUL SPR.MS 14). Francis …
To Charles Lyell 6 June [1860]
Summary
Mentions Etty’s illness.
A "coarsely contemptuous" review of Origin by Samuel Haughton ["On the form of the cells made by various wasps and by the honey bee; with an appendix on the origin of species", Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dublin 3 (1860): 128–40].
Comments on reception of Malthus’ ideas.
Says William Hopkins does not understand him.
Discusses problem of term "natural selection".
J. A. Lowell’s review of Origin [Christian Examiner (1860): 449–64].
Relationship between instinct and structure.
Discusses blindness of cave animals.
The fallacy of Andrew Murray and others; the slight importance of climate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.215) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2822 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 October [1877]
Summary
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 May 1876 ( Correspondence vol. 24). Sara Sedgwick and William Erasmus Darwin wanted to keep their engagement secret until Sara’s family in America had heard the news; after accepting William’s proposal of marriage, Sara decided not to return to America before the wedding as it would make it harder for her to leave again ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [30 September 1877] (DAR 219.9: 162)). CD and Francis …
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1878]
Summary
CD and Frank think they have proved that function of plant sleep is to protect leaves from injury by chilling radiation. Requests plants for experiment to determine whether underside of leaf is hardier than upper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 469–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11443 |
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To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Devay’s book in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 194–5). In Variation 2: 122 n. 21, CD cited Devay on the prohibition by the legislature of Ohio of marriages between cousins and added that he had ‘been assured, in answer to inquiries made in the United States,’ that this statement was ‘a mere fable’. See letter from Asa Gray, [10– …
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Francis and Leonard returned to school on 2 February 1865, and suggests that George may also have been at Down for part of December 1864 and January 1865. CD’s youngest son, Horace, aged 13, had been recovering from an intermittent illness since 1862 (see Correspondence vols. 10– …
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1873]
Summary
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 259–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8779 |
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
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- … Francis. 1861. Observations of the supposed hereditability of peculiar traits of bodily and mental organization, and especially of mental disease. [Read 8 January 1861. ] Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5 (1860–2): 102–10. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. …
To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [16 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 98v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13206 |
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- … 10 and 17 June 1881. CD had evidently read the first part, in which Wortmann described experiments with Phycomyces nitens that demonstrated the movement of sporophores away from moisture. In Wortmann 1881 , pp. 373–4, Wortmann had cited Theophil Ciesielski ’s paper on roots bending away from water ( Ciesielski 1872 ). See letter to Francis Darwin, …
To W. E. Darwin [9 May 1880]
Summary
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [9 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12601 |
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- … 10 May 1880, the date of the postmark, was 9 May. This letter was written on the blank pages of the letter from John Lubbock, 9 May 1880 . See letter from John Lubbock, 9 May 1880 . John Lubbock was standing for election as MP for the University of London, and, evidently to drum up support for his campaign, had asked whether William Erasmus Darwin would contact Edwin Hearne and Henry Hermann Carlisle , two graduates of the university, who lived in Southampton (see letter from John Lubbock, 9 May 1880 ). ‘2 mean’ is a mistake for ‘2 men’. Andrew Clark , Francis …
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton, 12 January 1877 , and by the address. CD was in London at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield , from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See also n. 2, below. The Sunday following 9 January 1877 was 14 January. George Howard Darwin and CD had been advising Galton on the lecture he was preparing to deliver at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 9 February 1877, ‘Typical laws of heredity’ ( Galton 1877 ; see Pritchard 2007 , pp. 8–10, …
To W. D. Fox [16 November 1859]
Summary
News of his health and the water-cure establishment.
[Origin] "my weariful book on Species" has been sent to WDF, who will not agree with it. Hooker is a convert, and Lyell is "staggered".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [16 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 124) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2533 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis is gone: I never saw him but once, on our to me memorable & pleasant visit to Sydnope. The Cromptons are here, & they know well all of you, & are, as they say, connected with you. — Poor M r Crompton who has just lost his wife, is here, & the old Lady who seems very nice: I have not seen the invalid daughter. I find that M r . Rhoades Darwin lives about 10 …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
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