From Mary Butler [before 25 December 1862]
Summary
J. P. Thom [of Home News] must change his position because of his health. Asks if CD can help find him a new situation.
| Author: | Mary Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 392 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3838 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Butler visited Down House for a week ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In 1862, Lane took …
- … by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … Drysdale was Lane’s mother-in-law, and lived with him ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 184). …
- … No letters from Emma Darwin to Butler have been found. CD made the acquaintance of J. …
- … identified. Emma had been encouraging CD to grow a beard (see letter to W. E. Darwin, …
From T. H. Huxley 2 December 1862
Summary
Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3841 |
To W. A. Leighton 4 December [1862]
Summary
Apologises for the trouble he has caused over his enquiries about strawberries. Describes the problems he and Emma have had with Verbascum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Unknown dealer |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3633F |
To T. H. Huxley 7 December [1862]
Summary
On THH’s Lectures to working men.
Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.
[Part of P.S. missing from original.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3848 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.
Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.
Expression of the emotions.
Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.
JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3875 |
To J. B. Innes 22 December [1862]
Summary
Family and local news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3872 |
To [Camilla] Ludwig 22 December 1862
Summary
Explains the terms of his £200 gift or loan to Miss Ludwig’s father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3873F |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
| Ludwig, Camilla | (1) |
| Pattrick, Camilla | (1) |
