From Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton 28 June [1862]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 28 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | James G. Zimmer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3626 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 8 August [1862]
Summary
WED thinks Bournemouth a suitable holiday destination for ED and CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674F |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to Emma Darwin [January 1862]
Summary
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3368 |
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [29 October 1862]
Summary
Instinct in cats.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3787 |
From Philip Henry Stanhope 28 July 1862
Summary
Invites CD and Emma to dine.
| Author: | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3669 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), and Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). See letter from …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family …
- … to Down House is not recorded in either Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) or CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …
- … Brodie, who was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178; see also letter to W. E. …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [9 August 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 61). As a result of Emma …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and letter to W. E. Darwin, 9 July [1862] ). According to Emma …
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: 4 hits
- … Butler visited Down House for a week ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In 1862, Lane took …
- … Oxford University Press. 1927–96. Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. …
- … s mother-in-law, and lived with him ( Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 184). No letters from Emma …
- … identified. Emma had been encouraging CD to grow a beard (see letter to W. E. Darwin, …
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family …
- … from January 1857 to January 1859 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and CD’s Classed …
- … to Camilla Ludwig, 26 August [1862] , Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s Classed …
- … Ludwig in November (see letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [9 August 1862] and [ …
- … Down House MS), Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
- … 4. Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
To John Lubbock 2 September [1862]
Summary
Hive-bees and clover.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3708 |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 September 1862]
Summary
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2–3 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3673 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum ? ]. [Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso. ] …
- … and by reference to the letter to William from Emma Darwin , written on the verso of this …
- … Darwin had been ill with scarlet fever since 12 June 1862 (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ); Emma …
- … Emma, and Leonard Darwin stayed with William in Southampton until 1 September 1862, when they joined the rest of the family in Bournemouth (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)). In her letter to William, Emma …
To John Lubbock 23 January [1862]
Summary
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3409 |
To W. E. Darwin [8 May 1862]
Summary
Hooker has written about WED’s going to Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [8 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3525 |
To W. E. Darwin [31 May 1862]
Summary
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3580 |
Matches: 3 hits
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]
Summary
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2–3 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3678 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family …
- … 124). Leonard Darwin was recovering from scarlet fever (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
- … Darwin [24 July 1862] ). During the latter part of Leonard’s illness, the other Darwin children had been sent away with their former nurse, Brodie, who was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin ( …
- … Darwin, 1 August 1862 , 2 August [1862] , and 5 August 1862 . The letter was written on Saturday and Sunday; 2 August 1862 fell on Saturday. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 . The reference is to CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin . In a letter to William of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59), Emma Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … proofs of Orchids (see n. 6, below). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that the ‘Boys …
- … Mackintosh Wedgwood. There is an entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on 25 April 1862 …
- … Grammar School. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [3 February 1862] (DAR …
- … book (Down House MS), letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [13 December 1862] (DAR …
- … George (see, for example, the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [26 March 1858] ( …
To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … s diary (DAR 242), and the letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [19 November 1862] …
- … Hampshire Bank, Southampton. Henrietta Emma Darwin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [ …
- … of Down. On Saturday 1 November 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …
- … January 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , [2 March 1862], [27 May 1862], and [6 November 1862], in DAR 219.1: 49, 57, 64; see also Emma …
From John Lubbock 29 January 1862
Summary
Will visit CD on Saturday.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3417 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 June [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.
Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.
Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".
Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.
"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.
Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3597 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … at Down House between 1857 and 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); she was currently …
- … CD was in London from 6 to 9 May 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and visited the …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 9 June 1862 . Emma and Horace Darwin were in Southampton from 3 to …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [14 May 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 56) and was thus a neighbour of the Hookers. According to Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
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| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Bates, H. W. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (137) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (24) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (21) |
| Lubbock, John | (10) |
| Gray, Asa | (9) |
