From G. H. Darwin [23 November 1877]
Summary
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11249 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877]
Summary
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11251 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, [23 November 1877] . See letter from G. H. …
- … 1877] . George had asked whether CD would like to sign his proposal form for fellowship of the Royal Society of London . (CD did not sign it: Royal Society archives, EC/1879/13. ) James Whitbread Lee Glaisher . See letter from G. H. Darwin, …
To G. H. Darwin 21 November [1877]
Summary
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11246 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 28 October 1877]
Summary
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216 |
To T. M. Reade 12 October [1877]
Summary
CD is occupied with vegetable physiology.
Prefers to read MS when published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11180 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1877]
Summary
Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10976 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Summary
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
From G. H. Darwin [28 October 1877]
Summary
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11213 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 February [1878]
Summary
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11345 |
From J. M. Rodwell 1 June 1877
Summary
Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
| Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10980 |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
From G. H. Darwin 22 November 1877
Summary
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11247 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 2. On the construction of the Wren …
- … Appendix II)). See letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 3. The physicist …
- … 1877 ( London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1921 (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 May 2016)). Henrietta Emma Litchfield . John Evans’s letter to George has not been found; James Geikie’s letter of 20 November 1877, thanking George for a copy of his paper ‘On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis of rotation’ ( G. H. Darwin …
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 15 June [1877]
Summary
Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
| Author: | Frederic Harrison |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 1915 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001F |
From G. H. Darwin [before 11 July 1878]
Summary
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11600 |
From G. H. Darwin 31 May 1876
Summary
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10519 |
From Thomas Belt 20 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s frank criticism of his views.
Hooker advises him to apply for aid to work out glaciation between Pyrenees and Alps.
| Author: | Thomas Belt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10806 |
From W. D. Roebuck 1 November 1880
Summary
Sends the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s publications prior to the visit to Down of its deputation.
| Author: | William Denison Roebuck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12788 |
From E. A. Greaves to Francis Darwin 31 December 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11299 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Summary
"Frank has sent the cards here."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker of 21 April [1877] , CD mentioned he had forgotten his card (an invitation to the Royal Society conversazione that took place on 25 April 1877) and would send for it; Francis Darwin sent the card from Down. CD visited London from 20 to 28 April 1877, staying first with his daughter and son-in-law, Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield , and from Tuesday 24 April with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from G. H. …
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| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (24) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
