To Josef Popper 15 February 1881
Summary
Cannot help JP [with bird-powered flying machine].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josef Popper (Josef Popper-Lynkeus) |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13054 |
To Francis Darwin [18 December 1881]
Summary
Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13548 |
From Francis Darwin 16 July 1881
Summary
Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245F |
From W. M. Hacon 26 September 1881
Summary
WMH’s agent taking will to Down for CD to sign.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13356 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … bring the will for your execution by the train, leaving Cannon Street at 1 o .52
′ . And he …
From Josef Popper 11 February 1881
Summary
Interested in theory of flight machines. Thinks it may be possible to fly by hitching man to large birds. What does CD think?
Recalls gift of book sent to CD.
| Author: | Josef Popper (Josef Popper-Lynkeus) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13051 |
To J. S. Billings 8 [October 1881]
Summary
Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Shaw Billings |
| Date: | 8 [Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13377 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … so troublesome a journey. There are very few trains on a Sunday to Orpington St, (4 miles …
From John Price 17 September 1881
Summary
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … after being out 4 hours, & in 7 diff t trains , never got within 5 or 6 miles, & nearly …
From Ernst Krause 2 January 1881
Summary
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12969 |
From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881]
Summary
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … then killed this one just as I was obliged to rush off for the train. Yr affec son | F. D …
From Anthony Rich 1 March 1881
Summary
AR plans, when he dies, to leave sea-side house at Worthing to Huxley.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13071 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … that he would only have to get into the train with his portmanteau and find the premises …
To Francis Darwin 28 June [1881]
Summary
Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.
Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13225 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … that the Darwins would not need to change trains in central London on their journey home. …
From B. J. Sulivan 29 September 1881
Summary
Gives further details on his grapes.
Tells of his recent movements and state of health.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13363 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and I had planned going over for a day by train to see you as I did from Lewes; but I am …
From Leopold Würtenberger 3 August 1881
Summary
Repeats request for loan in order to spend probationary training period in chemical factory.
| Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13270 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … be a certainty; however, I lack the means to train in a factory at my own expense for this …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Popper-Lynkeus, Josef | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Billings, J. S. | (1) |
| Popper-Lynkeus, Josef | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Popper-Lynkeus, Josef | (2) |
| Billings, J. S. | (1) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
What is an experiment?
Summary
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Matches: 1 hits
- … his shoulder and eyes gazing intently, as if following a train of thought. This portrait fits nicely …
Darwin on marriage
Summary
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Matches: 1 hits
- … as Lyell does, correcting & adding up new information to old train & I do not see what line …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
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Matches: 1 hits
- … [before 31 July 1879] ). Darwin advised travelling by train, although it took eight hours, assuring …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
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- … 1876 ). By the time the Darwins were organising a special train carriage to get Caroline home, they …
