To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876]
Summary
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10617 |
To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Summary
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876] …
- … DAR 211: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1876] Francis Darwin …
- … Darwin 1877a , 1877b). See letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] and n. 1. CD was …
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … between this letter and the letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] . CD’s heavily …
- … of Popular Science Review . Francis’s wife, Amy Darwin , had died a few days after the …
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1876]
Summary
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 417–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10592 |
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876] …
- … DAR 211: 13 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 [Sept 1876] Francis Darwin …
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ). Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy, had died on 11 September …
- … 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis and Amy’s son was Bernard Darwin . CD was …
To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876]
Summary
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10604 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 11 September 1876
Summary
His research on Orchis maculata.
Discusses effect of disuse of anthers in Salvia officinalis.
Pleased CD can use his observations on Primula elatior.
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10595 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
To W. C. Marshall 19 September 1876
Summary
Asks WCM to design additional rooms for Down House.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.499) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10609 |
To F. J. Cohn 26 September [1876]
Summary
Invites him to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10618 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Pflanzen , vol. 2, no. 2 (see letter to Francis Darwin, 27 [September 1876] and nn. 3 and …
- … Darwin was recovering from a concussion he had suffered following a riding accident (see letter to Andrew Clark, [late June 1876] and n. 3). CD’s daughter-in-law, Amy Darwin , had died on 11 September 1876; the Darwins were caring for their grandson, Bernard Darwin , while Francis Darwin …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 47–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10602 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Summary
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
From W. H. Flower 27 September 1876
Summary
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10620 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses death of his daughter-in-law
and possible visit by EH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 40 [9893]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10601 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
From Hermann Müller 4 September 1876
Summary
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10589 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 September [1876]
Summary
Discusses the purchase of some land;
plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10625 |
To R. F. Cooke 19 September [1876]
Summary
Discusses page length [of Cross and self-fertilisation]. Doubts 1500 copies will be sold until lapse of some years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 19 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10610 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 September [1876]
Summary
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622F |
| letter | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
