From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
Summary
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12428 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, W. E. Sedgwick, Sara Darwin, Sara Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. Darwin, C. R. …
From H. E. Litchfield [1 February 1880]
Summary
Comments on drafts of CD’s letter to the Athenæum answering S. Butler’s charges.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B93–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12444 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. Darwin, C. R. …
To the Darwin children 10 January 1880
Summary
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12414 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, G. H. Darwin, Horace Darwin, Leonard Darwin, W. E. Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. …
To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 17 [Jan 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12429 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, Leonard Darwin, W. E. Sedgwick, Sara Darwin, Sara Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. …
From H. E. Litchfield [1 February 1880]
Summary
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12450 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. Litchfield, R. B. Darwin, C. R. …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] and three enclosures). In his first draft response, CD had stated that text had inadvertently been left out of the preface to Erasmus Darwin explaining that Ernst Krause ’s original essay ( Krause 1879a ) had been revised (see letter to H. E. …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosures 2 and 3). John Skinner was CD’s coachman. In a letter dated 4 February 1880 (DAR 219.1: 134), Emma Darwin …
To H. E. Litchfield 8 [October 1880]
Summary
Reports on Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 8 [Oct 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12744 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. …
To H. E. Litchfield 1 February [1880]
Summary
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12445 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 25 November [1880]
Summary
Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12855 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 29 November ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 November 1880] (DAR 219.9: …
To W. E. Darwin 5 [April 1880]
Summary
Discusses a book
and the "splendid news about the elections".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [Apr 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12564 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DAR 242); letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 4 April 1880 (DAR 219.9: 229)). …
To John Fiske 14 May [1880]
Summary
Invites JF to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 14 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8269) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12606 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … DAR 242), letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [22 May 1880] (DAR 219.9: 234)). CD …
- … Down House ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 14 May [1880] (DAR 219.9: 233)). …
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … visit ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [10 May 1879] (DAR 219.9: 196)). Emma …
From W. E. Darwin 1 December [1880]
Summary
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin . A letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 November 1880] (DAR 219.9: …
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1880]
Summary
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12514 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … quoted in a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 March 1880 (DAR 219.9: 224): ‘I …
To J. W. C. Fegan [before 25 February 1880]
Summary
Gladly turns reading room over to JWCF for his mission work. Through his gospel services there is not a drunkard left in the village.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James William Condell Fegan |
| Date: | [before 25 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | Fullerton 1930, p. 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12879 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … this letter and letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 25 February 1880 (DAR 219.9: …
To G. H. Darwin 29 January [1880]
Summary
Sorry to hear of his illness.
On his visit to J. F. McLennan, GHD might tell him that CD thinks A. R. Wallace would work up McLennan’s materials conscientiously.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12441 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in Zurich ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 19 January 1880 (DAR 219.9: 218), …
From V. O. Kovalevsky [after 21 November 1880]
Summary
Wishes to see CD.
He has been proposed as Professor of Geology at the University of Moscow.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 21 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12837 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 29 November ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 November 1880] (DAR 219.9: …
From J. B. Innes 19 August 1880
Summary
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … May 1880 (letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 May 1880] and [12 May 1880] ( …
From W. E. Darwin [28 January 1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin , William’s wife. See letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 , and letter to H. E. Litchfield, …
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … May 1880 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 May 1880] (DAR 219.9: 236)). …
To H. W. Jackson 15 July 1880
Summary
Thanks HWJ for his kind note. If the weather had been better CD could have made the visit [of the Lewisham & Blackheath Scientific Association] more agreeable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry William Jackson |
| Date: | 15 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12652 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to Emma Darwin , there were ‘violent showers every hour’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, [11 …
| letter | (31) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (4) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
