From T. H. Farrer 12 October 1879
Summary
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12253 |
To Gustaf Retzius 2 October 1879
Summary
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245A |
To Horace Darwin 23 October [1879]
Summary
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 258: 549 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268G |
From T. H. Farrer 30 October 1879
Summary
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12279 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October 1879
Summary
Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256A |
To Eduard Schulte 28 October 1879
Summary
Discusses case of colour display in butterfly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Schulte |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 428 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12274 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Summary
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
From Gustaf Retzius 3 October 1879
Summary
Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.
Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.
Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.
| Author: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12246 |
To T. H. Farrer 31 October 1879
Summary
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12280 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1879]
Summary
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249F |
To ? 23 October 1879
Summary
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Ronald T. Raines (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268F |
From J. D. Hooker 2 October 1879
Summary
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 131–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12242 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1879]
Summary
Searching for the right gardener.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
To Asa Gray 24 October 1879
Summary
Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.
Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12269 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 October 1879
Summary
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256 |
| letter | (15) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Retzius, Gustaf | (2) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
