To W. E. Darwin [November 1871]
Summary
Explains some proof-correcting symbols to be used by WED [on Origin, 6th ed. proofs?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8042 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 December [1871]
Summary
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122G |
From E. A. Darwin 10 September [1871]
Summary
Writes to check on stock certificates received.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7931 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 November 1871]
Summary
Sends comments from himself and Erasmus Darwin on proofs of chapter 7 of Origin 6th ed.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8041F |
To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 [November 1871]
Summary
Is sending some proofs for correction by WED [6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 [Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8048 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 September [1871]
Summary
Location of stock certificates.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7939 |
From R. O. Jones 20 November 1871
Summary
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
| Author: | Robert Owen Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8078 |
From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871] …
- … this letter and the letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). See …
- … Darwin, 20 March 1871 . CD’s publisher John Murray had ordered a second printing of Descent . CD earned £1470 for the book; the cost of corrections was £128 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. …
- … Academy ( Wallace 1871 ). See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March …
- … Darwin, 20 March 1871 and nn. 1 and 2). CD had offered Henrietta a gift to thank her for her extensive comments and corrections to Descent (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to H. E. …
- … 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix VI). Henrietta gave a long account of a Lenten mission sponsored by the Anglican church in her journal; it was based on the reports of Emily Caroline Langton and Alice Louisa Langton Massingberd , who had attended the meetings in Bournemouth (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix VI). Henrietta had seen the Langtons when she was in Cannes in 1870 ( letter from H. E. Darwin …
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 7 May 1871
Summary
The pupils of eyes of ague patients in the cold stage are dilated.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7743 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 7 May 1871 …
- … F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin, 16 April 1871 . William Johnstone Fyffe ’s …
- … 1871 My dear Darwin, I have not forgotten the question about the pupil in the cold stage of ague— As I told you we had several cases brought into hospital sometime ago,—but my own duties prevented me seeing them much, so that I only saw one case in which it seemed to me that the pupils were dilated :— but the observation was not worth much as the man was obviously emerging from the cold stage— I however called Dr Fyffe’s att
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To F. E. Abbot 6 June [1871]
Summary
Sends subscription for the Index.
FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7804 |
From W. E. Darwin 4 November 1871
Summary
Will write to de Chaumont to ask whether anyone at Netley is able to observe shivering fits. Has not got H. Spencer essays.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 115) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8052F |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 13 June [1880]
Summary
CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 13 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12633 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) William …
- … Darwin forgets that he expressly authorized me to print his “endorsement”, in his letter of Nov. 16, 1871. F.E.A. ’ For CD’s permission, see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to F. E. …
- … E. Abbot, 15 May 1880 . Abbot had been editor of the Index since 1870. William evidently met Abbot when he and his wife Sara Darwin visited her family in Massachusetts ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and Correspondence vol. 26, letter to B. J. Sulivan, 5 November [1878] ). The advertisement contained a modified version of a statement CD had made about a tract associated with the Index ( Abbot [1870] ) in his letter to Abbot of 27 May [1871] ( …
From W. E. Darwin 6 November 1871
Summary
Will send back proofs of Origin 6th ed.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8040F |
From W. E. Darwin [3 November 1871]
Summary
Apologises for not working very quickly on proofs. Comments on Huxley’s theological critique of Mivart.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8048F |
To E. A. Darwin [after 29 July 1871?]
Summary
Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | [after 29 July 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7887 |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 20 December 1875
Summary
Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (20 December 1875), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10311 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) William …
- … E. Darwin, 19 January 1876 ). Abbot had previously wanted to publish extracts from CD’s letters that showed his support for the Index , even though CD expressed reservations about having his views publicised in this way (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 19, letter to F. E. Abbot, 6 September [1871] ). …
To W. E. Darwin 11 February [1871]
Summary
Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8208 |
To F. E. Abbot 2 July 1872
Summary
Renews subscription to Index.
Was interested in FEA’s lecture on "The God of science" [Index 24 Feb 1872].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 2 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8401 |
To F. E. Abbot 27 May [1871]
Summary
CD is surprised and gratified by the interest in his views in America.
Has read the extract from the Liberal Christian sent by FEA and also Truths for the times, which he admires.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 27 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7771 |
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