To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Down (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 May 1863]). The …
- … letters from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] and 8 May [1863] . In 1863, 5 May was a Tuesday. According to Emma …
- … letter to W. E. Darwin, [10 May 1863] and n. 3. CD’s experiments with Echium vulgare had established that some members of the Boraginaceae were gyno-dioecious (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ). CD and Emma …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter and the letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] , and by the …
- … 1863 , and Appendix IX). None of the replies to the circular mentioned here have been found. Emma refers to Francis Sacheverel Darwin and to his son-in-law, Edward Woollett Wilmot , who was CD’s first and Fox’s second cousin by marriage ( Darwin pedigree ). Ellen Sophia Fox . See letter from Emma Darwin …
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 24 October 1863
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4322 |
To Andrew Clark [late June 1876]
Summary
Wishes to arrange for William Darwin to see AC. William has suffered a concussion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [late June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10553 |
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 …
- … 1863 ( E. L. Darwin 1863 ). Emma Darwin had apparently sent Edward Darwin a copy of An appeal , a four-page circular concerning the cruelty of using steel traps for catching vermin, which she and CD had privately printed for distribution in August (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, …
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … November 1863 and n. 4. CD wrote the first section of the letter in pencil; Emma Darwin …
- … letter to John Scott, 8 January [1864] and n. 4. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 10 January 1864 recorded ‘copious sickness’ at 9:30 that evening. Francis Boott died of a lung disease on 25 December 1863 ( …
- … 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). CD sent this letter to Hooker with his letter of 10 [November 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11); see also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, …
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 1863], …
- … 1863. Mrs Acland was probably Robina Jemima Acland , the wife of Lawford Acland of Langdown Lawn, Hythe, near Southampton ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [after 7 October 1861] , in DAR 210.6: 76; Post Office directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire 1867–75). Henrietta Emma …
- … 1863 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 21 August [1863] , n. 9). CD underwent treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, between 3 September and 12 or 13 October 1863. According to Emma …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood arrived on 27 October 1863. The following Wednesday was 28 October. The references are to the local surgeon Stephen Paul Engleheart ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862), and to the London physician William Brinton , a specialist in stomach disorders (see letter …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … treatment on 15 September 1863. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 …
- … 1863] ). As a result, CD was receiving treatment in Malvern Wells at the hydropathic establishment run by James Smith Ayerst , an associate of Gully’s (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] and n. 1). According to Emma Darwin’ …
- … 1863] ). The reference is to Eliza Partington , the lodging-house keeper who ran Montreal House, where Annie had apparently lodged ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter to E. A. Darwin, 19 April 1851 ; Post Office directory of Birmingham 1850 and 1864). This individual has not been identified. In her diary (DAR 242), Emma …
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
From John Lubbock to Emma Darwin 6 November 1863
Summary
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4331 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses partnership in bank and whether Atherley would like to retire.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035F |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD and Fox met on 13 February (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … 1863 at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where CD and Horace Darwin took the water cure at the hydropathic establishment of James Smith Ayerst (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). William Jenner first visited CD on 20 March 1864; his second visit was on 10 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See also letter from William Jenner to Emma Darwin, [ …
To John Lubbock [1 January 1864]
Summary
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4375 |
To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
To E. W. Lane 23 June 1873
Summary
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Wickstead Lane |
| Date: | 23 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.429) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8946 |
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
To George Maw 12 May [1863]
Summary
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 12 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4157 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 26 December 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1863, pp. 752–3, of John Hanning Speke ’s Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile ( Speke 1863 ). CD did not sit for the bust by Thomas Woolner until 1868 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ( Calendar no. 6476)). See also Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin …
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| Darwin, Emma | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (18) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (75) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Scott, John | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (183) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (51) |
| Darwin, Emma | (23) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (23) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (18) |
