From G. H. Darwin [20 April 1870]
Summary
Is leaving tonight for Genoa;
sends a French paper [not identified].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Apr 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7046 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Summary
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
From G. H. Darwin [18 October 1881]
Summary
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13412 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 October 1873
Summary
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9088 |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … a nursemaid to Erasmus (letter from Elizabeth Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 27 August 1882 ( …
- … Darwin, 17 November 1881 ). George’s paper ‘On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains’ ( G. H. Darwin 1881b ) had been read at the Royal Society of London on 16 June 1881. George Gabriel Stokes was secretary of the Royal Society. George left for Jamaica on 2 February 1882 (see letter from W. E. …
From G. H. Darwin 6 February 1874
Summary
Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9268 |
From G. H. Darwin [1–4 April 1871]
Summary
Mentions some photos relating to expression.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–4 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7790 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 January 1882
Summary
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13640 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 February 1870]
Summary
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7096 |
From G. H. Darwin [6 December 1881]
Summary
Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13532 |
From G. H. Darwin 15 October 1881
Summary
Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13401 |
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, [3 February 1870 or earlier] , and on the assumption that this letter could not have been written on a Wednesday (2 February 1870 was a Wednesday). Fourteen Arlington Street, Piccadilly. George was trying to find a new horse for CD to replace Tommy, who had thrown CD in April 1869 ( letter from G. H. Darwin to H. E. …
From G. H. Darwin 10 May 1879
Summary
Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12048 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. Darwin, 7 May [1879] ). George had met Rich in January (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 10 January [1879] and n. 2) Leonard Darwin and Horace Darwin . George was probably planning to visit William Thomson in Glasgow. Thomson’s wife, Frances Anna Thomson , had told Horace Darwin that they would be in Glasgow until 20 May 1879 and would be glad to see George any time before then ( letter …
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 May 1879
Summary
Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].
Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12034 |
From G. H. Darwin 31 May 1876
Summary
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10519 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin 1877 ). Horace Darwin had invited George to Clerkenwell, London, to see the machine he had devised to demonstrate planetary motion ( letter from Horace Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 25 May 1876 (DAR 258: 861)); on 29 May he sent a telegram to George to cancel the meeting because he was unwell ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
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