From C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 12 April 1868
Summary
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6112 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868] …
- … Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood unstated [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … 12 April. Charles Langton Massingberd , his wife Harriett, and his daughter, Alice Louisa Langton Massingberd . Elizabeth moved from London to Down in 1868 (see Emma Darwin ( …
From Edward Blyth 8 September 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6358 |
To J. J. Weir 5 June 1868
Summary
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6232 |
To J. D. Hooker [8–10 September 1868]
Summary
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8–10 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 91–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6357 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Saturday and Sunday, 12 and 13 September (see also Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Henry …
- … 12, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 and nn. 6–8. For the views on religion and on Darwinism of the journalist and historian Goldwin Smith , see Phillips 2002 , pp. 146– 60. Susan Ridley Norton and Charles Eliot Norton of Cambridge, Massachusetts were staying in the village of Keston, two miles north-west of Down; they lunched at Down on Sunday 6 September ( Emma Darwin’ …
To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868]
Summary
Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse |
| Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 39-40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5962 |
To A. R. Wallace 16 September [1868]
Summary
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6368 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 [March 1868]
Summary
On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Peacocks and sexual selection.
ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6018 |
From Cicely Mary Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 9 February [1868]
Summary
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5855 |
To J. J. Weir 13 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for facts about birds displaying plumage during courtship; "for Butterflies I must trust to analogy altogether in regard to sexual selection".
Invites JJW to visit in summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2952: 8–10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6009 |
From Edward Blyth 17 September 1868
Summary
Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6372 |
To A. R. Wallace 19 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6322 |
From Edmund and Charles Langton to S. E. Wedgwood [after 9 November 1868]
Summary
Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.
| Author: | Edmund Langton; Charles Langton |
| Addressee: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [after 9 Nov 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5756 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker to Emma Darwin 24 September [1868]
Summary
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 229–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6907 |
To Albert Günther 12 May [1868]
Summary
Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.
Invites AG to come to Down.
Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 12 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7186 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1868]
Summary
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 78–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6279 |
From Ernst Haeckel [before 6 February 1868]
Summary
Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.
Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.
His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.
Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].
Describes research on Siphonophora.
Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5840 |
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- … 12 and 13). On Colenso and Bleek, see Di Gregorio 2005 , pp. 240– 2. The reference is to Webb and Berthelot 1836–50. Haeckel probably refers in particular to the Géographie botanique (vol. 2, pt 1, in tome 3), 1840. Haeckel’s research on siphonophores was published in Haeckel 1869 . Agnes Haeckel . Haeckel refers to Emma Darwin …
| letter | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Hawkshaw, C. M. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, C. M. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Weir, J. J. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Weir, J. J. | (3) |
