From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Innes, J. B. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875] …
- … M. Stecher collection) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 24 Dec [1875] John Brodie Innes …
- … good wish to your trio, very truly yours | Emma Darwin P.S. As a proof that nobody need …
- … Darwins at Down House on 5 March 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), Emma changed her …
- … were ‘not nice enough’ (see letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, [6 March 1876] (DAR …
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 24 June [1874] and n. …
- … he returned home on 28 March 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Innes and his wife, …
To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … by the reference to CD’s visit to London (see n. 2, below). CD, Emma Darwin , and …
- … 10 to 20 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … CD and Emma Darwin visited Huxley on …
- … Sunday 12 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Elizabeth Darwin stayed with Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from …
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1875]
Summary
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10293 |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1875]
Summary
Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.
Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 17 [Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10301 |
To K. M. Lyell 26 December [1875]
Summary
Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13826 |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1875?]
Summary
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Dec 1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8133 |
To A. R. Wallace 23 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10322 |
To R. F. Cooke 17 December [1875]
Summary
Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10304 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 December 1875
Summary
BJS has just moved.
Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.
Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10331 |
To Thomas Carlyle 4 December 1875
Summary
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Carlyle |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | National Trust (Carlyle’s House) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10288G |
| letter | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Carlyle, Thomas | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Carlyle, Thomas | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
