From Francis Parker 22 April 1867
Summary
Sends £600 bequeathed by Susan Darwin to CD’s younger children.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5510 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin . .... 100 Henrietta Emma Darwin … 100 Elizabeth Darwin .... . . 100 Cha s . Rob …
- … Susan Elizabeth Darwin , CD’s sister, died in October 1866 (see Correspondence vol. 14). …
- … the executors of her will ( Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s will, Probate Registry, York). Robert …
- … from the Will of the late Miss Susan Elizabeth Darwin dated 1 st . November 1865— “I give …
- … and my nieces Henrietta Emma Darwin and Elizabeth Darwin (the younger sons and daughters …
From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
Summary
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
From Salt & Sons 17 July 1867
Summary
Discusses proposed sale of house and provision for Wynne, the gardener, and his wife.
| Author: | Salt & Sons |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5583 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 November [1867]
Summary
Sends WED £200.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5685 |
From Mary Elizabeth Barber [after February 1867]
Summary
Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.
| Author: | Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5745 |
To Thomas Blunt 5 April [1867]
Summary
Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.
Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Blunt |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5487 |
From W. E. Darwin 19 November 1867
Summary
Suggests his father lend him the money to pay WED’s succession duty and thereby secure a discount.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5682F |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [July 1867]
Summary
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [July 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5369 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin [1867–72]
Summary
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7058 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
From W. D. Fox 1 February [1867]
Summary
Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5388 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … died in February 1866, and Susan Elizabeth Darwin in October 1866 (see Correspondence …
- … Darwin family home in Shrewsbury, where Susan had lived until her death (see n. 3, above). Fox was a second cousin of CD’ s, and had become particularly close to him while they were students at the University of Cambridge (see Correspondence vol. 1, and Browne 1995 , pp. 94–6). Fox refers to CD’s surviving sister, Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , and to her three daughters, Katherine Elizabeth …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [April 1867]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Anderson-Henry. He has however described in detail a curious case of the ovaria of Rhododendron directly affected by foreign pollen, like the Chamaerops and date-palm case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Apr 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5502 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867]
Summary
Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].
The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 24 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5575 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
From Henry Napier Bruce Erskine to Frances Julia Wedgwood 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
| Author: | Henry Napier Bruce Erskine |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5663 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address;
disagrees on Mary Barton.
Seeks name of the Mimulus on which he has experimented [see Variation 2: 128].
Requests flowers of yellow variety of Mirabilis jalapa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5621 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks CL for comments [on Variation].
Thinks Pangenesis would be important step in biology if admitted as probable.
Introduction to French edition [of Origin] has injured the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5612 |
From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867
Summary
Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.
| Author: | W. H. S Gibbons |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5394 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 19 November 1867]
Summary
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 19 Nov 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5334 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Barber, M. E. | (1) |
| Bowker, M. E. | (1) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Blunt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
