To Emma Darwin [28 April 1858]
Summary
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2261 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [28 April 1858] …
- … DAR 210.8: 34 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [28 Apr 1858] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … was written after the letter to Emma Darwin, [25 April 1858] . Simon Francis Bernard was …
- … 1858] . Lajos Kossuth , president of the short-lived Hungarian republic, was living in exile in England ( EB ). George Lillie Craik was Georgiana Craik’s father. He was professor of English literature at Queen’s University, Belfast. Not identified. Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858]
Summary
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2413 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858] …
- … DAR 210.8: 33 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [25 Apr 1858] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin , aged 15, had undergone treatment at Moor Park on two occasions in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6). Queen Victoria reviewed the troops at Aldershot camp, near Farnham, on Friday and Saturday, 23 and 24 April 1858 ( …
- … 1858 ). Formica sanguinea , the only slave-making species in England, had previously been found only in Hampshire and at Weybridge in Surrey ( F. Smith 1854 , p. 103). CD continued to observe ants throughout 1858 and 1859 (DAR 205.11 (2): 88–107). Probably a mistake for Below the surface: a story of English country life ( [Elton] 1857 ). The Three chances was an anonymous novel published by Smith, Elder and Company in 1858. Charlotte Langton was Emma Darwin’ …
To W. D. Fox 27 [June 1858]
Summary
Profoundly sorry for Lane.
Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.
Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.
Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 27 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2296 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 [October 1858]
Summary
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2341 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD’s sister, arrived with their family at Down on 15 January 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …
- … G. went to school’ on 1 February 1858. Henrietta Emma Darwin , aged 15, had suffered poor …
- … Emma Darwin recorded Leonard’s fluctuating ill health in several entries in her diary in February and March 1858. …
- … 1858: ‘My tour was unusually profitable, first in the glaciers and then the volcanos. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 279). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] and n. 5. Emma Darwin’ …
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2304 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … on the letter. Charles Waring Darwin had died on 28 June 1858. Emma Darwin’s diary records …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in Hartfield on 9 July 1858 and …
- … 1858 ‘Miss Pugh went’. Mary Ann Pugh had been engaged as governess to the Darwin children in April 1857. CD and Emma …
To W. E. Darwin 14 [May 1858]
Summary
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2273 |
To Mary Butler 20 February [1859]
Summary
Sends naturalists’ autographs.
Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Butler |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1859] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2416 |
To J. S. Henslow 4 August [1858]
Summary
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2320 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
To W. E. Darwin [26 May 1858]
Summary
Has come to heavy grief about bees’ cells, unless Huber is wrong [François Huber, New observations on the natural history of bees, new ed. (1841)].
Discusses cart-horses and stripes on a Belgiman [Belgian?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2266 |
To W. E. Darwin [26 April 1858]
Summary
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2265 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (76) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (20) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (16) |
| Fox, W. D. | (9) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (93) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (22) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
| Fox, W. D. | (10) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
