From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [30 April 1879]
Summary
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12102 |
From E. B. Tylor 11 November 1876
Summary
Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10667 |
To Francis Darwin [16 June 1881]
Summary
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [16 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 98v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13206 |
From Francis Darwin 17 June 1881
Summary
Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of ‘Växtbook’ from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208F |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 December 1880]
Summary
The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 27 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12950 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 November [1880]
Summary
Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.
CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12830 |
Ker, Ann (1805–88)
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- … 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/182/61/11) letter from Emma Darwin to Anne Elizabeth Darwin, [4 or 11 April 1851] (DAR 210.13: 4) ODNB s.v. Scott, Alexander John (1805–1866) Scotland old parish registers births 564/3 30 5 Greenock Old or West (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 17 September 2018) Bibliography ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. …
Harding, Elizabeth (1825–1912)
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- … 1881 (RG11/140/47/1), 1891 (RG12/121/9/16), 1901 (RG13/138/109/25), 1911 (RG14/16555/384) Certificate of marriage, 16 March 1857, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (General Register Office, England) Emma Darwin’s Classed account books (Down House MS) England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 April 2016) Freeman 1978 letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. …
To H. A. D. Seymour 20 January 1881
Summary
Sends address of A. R. Wallace. Comments on Wallace’s pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Alfred Damer Seymour |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.579) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13018 |
To Henry Johnson 7 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.
Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare and Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13668 |
From A. C. Ramsay 27 December 1871
Summary
Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 June 1881
Summary
CD has offered Ernst Haeckel £100 but does not know where to get further aid. Sorry to hear about Du Bois-Reymond, but is not in the least surprised about R. Virchow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 28 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13226 |
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 21 October [1873]
Summary
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1:14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9105 |
From A. C. Ramsay 3 January 1872
Summary
Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8141 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
From Anthony Rich 7 March 1880
Summary
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12524 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/320/22/40)). The story appeared in a letter from Charles Dickens (see Dickens 1880–2 , 2: 61). George Howard Darwin went to Davos, a well-known spa town, from 21 January to 13 February 1880 to visit John Ferguson McLennan , who was suffering from consumption; George visited Rich and William Erasmus Darwin at Bassett, Southampton, before setting off ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), letter from Elizabeth Darwin to Ida Darwin, 15 January [1880] (DAR 258: 564), and letter from Elizabeth Darwin to G. H. …
To George King 29 September 1880
Summary
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12730 |
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- … 1881. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. …
From W. C. Williamson 17 November 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for receiving the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s deputation.
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12824 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … G. H. Darwin, 25 October 1880 and n. 1). On the establishment of Victoria University, a federal university for the north of England, see J. Thompson 1886 , pp. 536–43; Owen’s College, Manchester, became affiliated to the University in 1880. Part XI of Williamson’s work on the fossil flora of the Coal Measures ( W. C. Williamson 1871–92 ) was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 172 (1881): …
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (20) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Rich, Anthony | (5) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (17) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, Horace | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (73) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (37) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (11) |
| Rich, Anthony | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
