To Reginald Darwin 10 April [1879]
Summary
Research for Erasmus Darwin. CD has always thought there is one "golden rule" for biographers: "not to insert anything which … would interest only the members of the Family".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11986 |
From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
To Emil du Bois-Reymond 23 January 1879
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of diploma.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11842 |
To Ann Marston 20 July [1879]
Summary
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ann Marston |
| Date: | 20 July [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11619 |
From T. L. Brunton 26 April [1879]
Summary
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12014 |
To Francis Darwin [4 February – 8 March 1879]
Summary
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11815 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1879]
Summary
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249F |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1879]
Summary
Searching for the right gardener.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
To Francis Galton 22 March 1879
Summary
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11947 |
From Ernst Krause 5 May 1879
Summary
Sends first part of MS of Erasmus Darwin.
Has found useful criticism of Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.
CD should regard MS as a draft and correct anything that seems incorrect or questionable. Asks biographical questions about Dr Darwin. Can CD give information about origin of family name?
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B22–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12032 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 12 July] 1879
Summary
Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 12 July] 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B7–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12160 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 , and Correspondence vol. …
- … E. Litchfield, 21 [March 1874] ). The Darwins were planning a vacation in the Lake District; they stayed in Coniston from 2 to 27 August 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). John Murray was CD’s publisher. CD had asked George Howard Darwin to investigate some of the early Darwin ancestors (see letter …
To C. M. C. Darwin 24 March 1879
Summary
Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11950F |
To W. E. Darwin 10 January [1879]
Summary
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11824 |
To E. S. Galton 2 April [1879]
Summary
Parcel of drawings and MS arrived safely.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11972 |
To Ernst Krause 14 March 1879
Summary
Pleased to hear that EK agrees to CD’s request to have article on Erasmus Darwin translated. Will wait for EK’s enlargement. Has decided submission to Fortnightly Review would be useless.
Warns against Anna Seward’s biography of Dr Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11932 |
From E. S. Galton 19 November 1879
Summary
Her brother-in-law, Edward Wheler, died on Sunday.
Sends some corrections for Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12337F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin & y r . family | Believe me | Your’s very sincerely | E. S. Galton Top of letter : ‘ …
- … letter from E. S. Galton, 12 November 1879 (although 12 November 1879 was a Wednesday). CD had sent her a copy of his Erasmus Darwin . …
- … E Darwin’s daughter—Violetta also inherited his Stammering to a great degree & till the age of 12. could hardly make herself understood— He sent for a Person fr. Edinburgh, who cured her in a great degree She could not pronounce the liquids L. M. N. R & Y— His remedy was, to put a vowel before each of those letters, …
From T. H. Farrer 12 October 1879
Summary
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12253 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … unwell but was improving (letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [6 January 1879] …
- … E. Darwin’, £58 15 s . Consols: consolidated annuities, consisting of several issues of stock, consolidated into one ( Cordingley 1901 ). On the banking crisis that took place in the last quarter of 1878, beginning with the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, see M. Collins 1989 . CD was informed of his election as foreign member of the Königliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften ( Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences ), subject to confirmation by the emperor, in November 1878 ( Correspondence vol. 26, letter …
From J. D. Hooker 2 October 1879
Summary
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 131–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12242 |
To E. S. Galton 20 November 1879
Summary
Thanks ESG for list of errata in his part [of Erasmus Darwin].
Extends sympathy on death of Edward Wheler, E. S. G’s brother-in-law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12331 |
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