To Asa Gray 16 July [1871]
Summary
CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7867 |
To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5333 |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … stylar forms (see Correpondence vol. 12, letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May …
- … H. E. Darwin, [25 March 1865] (DAR 219.9: 23); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Prior to this, Horace had been so ill for three years that he was able to study for only short periods with Reed ( Correspondence vol. 11, letter from G. V. Reed, 12 …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen, 10 January 1881 , and letter from Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 January 1881] ). Stephen had asked CD to sign a copy of Erasmus Darwin ( letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 …
- … 12 January [1881] . CD had asked for advice on how to respond to Samuel Butler from Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield (see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January 1881 , and letter from R. B. and H. E. Litchfield, 5 January [1881] ). Henrietta and Leonard Darwin …
From J. T. Moggridge 10 May [1866]
Summary
Sends a box of orchids.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5084 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12, letter to J. T. Moggridge, 19 June [1864] and plate facing p. 248. See letter from H. E. Darwin, [ …
- … H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866]. See letter from J. T. Moggridge, 15 February [1866] and n. 2. Moggridge had observed two forms of Ophrys scolopax ; one found at Cannes was self-fertile, another found at Mentone was not (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
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 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [7 May – 11 June 1866]
Summary
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 May – 11 June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5108 |
To Francis Galton 22 March 1879
Summary
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11947 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 12 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
To William Turner 28 March [1871]
Summary
Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.
At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7632 |
From Henry Pitman 24 April 1880
Summary
Would like more information about Erasmus Darwin’s shorthand writing for his series on "Shorthand writers of renown".
| Author: | Henry Pitman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12589 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
To Francis Darwin 25 May [1881]
Summary
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13174 |
To Charles Hamilton Smith 14 January [1845]
Summary
Has read CHS’s paper, "Original population of America" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 38 (1844–5): 1–20], and is eager to know reference for the account of a "ruined city in the Caroline Group", indicating that the land has subsided. Refers to his own subsidence hypothesis in his work [Coral reefs].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Hamilton Smith |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-815 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
To E. H. Stanley 25 June 1880
Summary
Sending EHS (Lord Derby) information about the Niagara affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 25 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/89/21/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642F |
Sanders, L. K. (1864/5–1931)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, letter from W. D. Fox, 28 November [1864]. Darwin pedigree Bibliography Darwin pedigree : Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p. : privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees , by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984. ] 12 Sanders, E. …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
