From H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen 10 January 1881
Summary
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13003 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1880 ; see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January 1881 , and letter from R. B. and H. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosure 1), …
From H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. Litchfield, [before 2 December 1871] . For R. …
- … between this letter and the letter to H. E. Litchfield, 2 December [1871] ( Correspondence …
From H. E. Litchfield 9 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 September [1871] . Richard …
From H. E. Litchfield [13 November 1871]
Summary
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Richard Litchfield for comments (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. Litchfield, [ …
From H. E. Litchfield [1 February 1880]
Summary
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12450 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to CD in response to the letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] . The letters are …
- … See letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] . The ‘first letter’ has not been …
- … letter from Samuel Butler (see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] and three …
- … and Cambridge Club ( H. E. Litchfield 1910 , p. 245). See letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosures 2 and 3). John Skinner was CD’s coachman. In a letter …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosure 3). This sentence is enclosed in pencil square brackets. In his first draft letter, …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosure 2). Erasmus Darwin was CD’s grandfather. Richard Buckley Litchfield appears to have read Henrietta’s letter …
From R. B. and H. E. Litchfield 5 January [1881]
Summary
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.
| Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B88–90, B106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12979 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … between this letter and the letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January 1881 . CD had asked the …
- … see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] and enclosure …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, H. E. | |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (6) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Stephen, Leslie | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, H. E. | (6) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (2) |
| Stephen, Leslie | (1) |
