From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 26 October [1877]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209F |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877] …
- … letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1877] . CD’s marriage present to William …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). The …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [8 July 1877] (DAR 219: 96)). …
- … July (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [25 May 1877] (DAR 219.9: 146), and …
- … see letter from W. E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). …
- … 1877, 16 October was a Tuesday. Farrer’s letter has not been found, but he probably wrote to congratulate the Darwins on the engagement of Sara to William and to commiserate on the news of Richard Buckley Litchfield’s recent illness (see letter to H. E. …
- … 1877] and n. 2). Sara had accepted William’s proposal of marriage in late September, but the engagement was kept secret until Sara’s family in America had heard the news ( letter from W. E. Darwin …
From W. E. Darwin [24 August 1877]
Summary
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10753 |
Siciliani, Pietro. 1877. La critica nella filosofia zoologica: lettere di Pietro Siciliani al Direttore del Preludio e di Darwin, Owen, Gegenbaur ed Haeckhel al Prof. Pietro Siciliani. Cremona: Tipographia Ronzi e signori.
From W. E. Darwin 20 August 1880
Summary
Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694F |
From W. E. Darwin 4 April 1877
Summary
Arrangements about a purchase of land.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923F |
To W. E. Darwin 3 October [1877]
Summary
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11165 |
From W. E. Darwin 24 October 1877
Summary
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11204F |
To W. E. Darwin 24 October [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11205 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
From W. D. Fox 3 April [1877]
Summary
Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1877?]
Summary
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Apr 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A44, A71–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10343 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
From W. E. Darwin [25 March? 1877]
Summary
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar? 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [25 March? 1877] …
- … letter from W. D. Fox, 3 April [1877] , and the letter from W. E. Darwin, 4 April 1877 . …
- … 1877 was 1 April, and would have been when William planned to make his observations. William was visiting William Darwin Fox . William Erasmus Darwin had made observations on the forms of flowers of Pulmonaria angustifolia (narrow-leaved lungwort) in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12). Cowes is a town on the Isle of Wight, about fifteen miles from William’s home in Bassett, Southampton. William had visited Cowes to make botanical observations in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 24, Supplement, letter from W. E. …
Canestrini, Giovanni. 1877. La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta ne’ suoi fondamenti come introduzione alla lettura delle opere del Darwin e de’ suoi seguaci. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice.
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