To Leslie Stephen 13 January 1881
Summary
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13012 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 November 1881
Summary
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497F |
To F. G. M. Powell [after 3 December 1881]
Summary
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell |
| Date: | [after 3 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 117v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13529 |
From W. E. Darwin [7 October 1881]
Summary
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13325F |
From G. H. Darwin [18 October 1881]
Summary
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13412 |
To Ernst Krause 4 January [1881]
Summary
CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36211) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12976 |
To Julius Wiesner 25 October 1881
Summary
Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Wiesner |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13432 |
From Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen [10 January 1881]
Summary
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | [10 Jan 1881] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13004 |
To E. R. Lankester 13 October [1881]
Summary
Says that salt water kills earthworms.
Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13396 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen 10 January 1881
Summary
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13003 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from R. B. and H. E. Litchfield, 5 January [1881] ). In the preface to Erasmus Darwin , …
- … Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 January 1881] . See Correspondence vol. 28, letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 . CD’s letter was quoted in full in Butler 1880 , pp. 72–3; extracts also appeared in Butler’s letters in the Athenæum , 31 January 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to H. E. …
From Leslie Stephen 12 January [1881]
Summary
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
| Author: | Leslie Stephen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B68–71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13008 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen, 10 January 1881 , letter from Leonard Darwin …
- … Darwin , p. 216). See Correspondence vol. 28, letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 . Butler’s accusations were in chapter 4 of Unconscious memory ( Butler 1880 , pp. 58–79). The letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 , was quoted in full in Butler 1880 , pp. 72–3; extracts also appeared in Butler’s letter in the Athenæum , 31 January 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to H. E. …
From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 8 October 1881
Summary
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13379 |
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … deceased wife’s family (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
- … Darwin , Francis’s son, was supposed to have accompanied his father to Wales, but at the last minute was not taken because his grandmother Mary Anne Ruck telegraphed to say there were reports of scarlet fever in the village (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
From R. B. and H. E. Litchfield 5 January [1881]
Summary
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.
| Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B88–90, B106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12979 |
To Leslie Stephen 11 January 1881
Summary
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13005 |
To John Lubbock [18 September 1881]
Summary
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13308 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 20 February [1881] (DAR 251: 1413)). See letter from W. E. …
- … Darwin, 18 February 1881 . See letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 February 1881 . The note to John Higgins has not been found. Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Emma Darwin and CD travelled to London on Thursday 24 February; they stayed there until 3 March (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Margaret Shaen was at Down on 17 February ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
From W. E. Darwin [13 October 1881]
Summary
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340G |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 October [1881] (DAR 219.9: 273)). Pearce had also been a servant at Down House and kept in touch with the Darwins. On 13 September 1881, Emma Darwin wrote in a letter …
- … H. Darwin, 8 September [1881] ), but later, worried that he might have made a mistake, asked George Howard Darwin to help him check the calculations (see letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 October 1881] ). William was looking at a later version of CD’s circular to his children concerning their future inheritance (see n. 7, below). This version has not been found, but for the earlier draft, see the letter …
To Ernst Krause 10 January 1881
Summary
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36212) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12998 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from R. B. and H. E. Litchfield, 5 January [1881] ). Krause had sent CD a response to Butler, and had suggested publishing it in Popular Science Review , a journal edited by William Sweetland Dallas (see letter from Ernst Krause, 2 January 1881 ). Dallas had translated Krause’s essay in Erasmus Darwin . …
- … H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] and enclosure 1). Francis Maitland Balfour arrived at Down on 8 January 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The translation of Krause’s reply to Butler was published in Nature , 27 January 1881, p. 288; it is a slightly revised version of the text Krause sent to CD in his letter …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
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