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From Francis Darwin   [1–15 March 1873]

Summary

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1–15 Mar 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8714F

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Down for London on 15 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George Howard Darwin . …
  • … tonic (see Harley ed.  1876, p.  294). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary, ‘began Arsenic’ …
  • … Joseph Parslow . Moore visited Down on 1 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin had influenza from 26 February  …
  • … 1873 until about 6 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [6 March 1873] , DAR 258: 573). …

From Francis Darwin   [31 May 1876]

Summary

Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10517F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … and n. 5). The weather on Sunday 28 May 1876 was pleasant, and CD and Emma Darwin went up …
  • … Holmbury Hill ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis, possibly …
  • … came to Hopedene on 3 June 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He also refers to …
  • … for Leonard Darwin , who was at Down from 8 May 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … on 10 May; he was staying with CD and Emma Darwin at Hopedene (see letter from Francis …

From Francis Darwin   1 and 2 May [1875]

Summary

Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 and 2 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. …
  • … on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin considered Bird ‘such a romancer’ …
  • … her not worth reading ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Darwin, [5 March 1875] (DAR …
  • … the plants that Francis mentions to Emma Darwin may have been intended for the garden …

From Francis Darwin   [25–7 May 1880]

Summary

Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25–7 May 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12616F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin left …
  • … and Francis lived with CD and Emma Darwin , and had accompanied them to Southampton …
  • … on their previous annual visit ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
  • … 10 May 1879] (DAR 219.9: 196)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin arrived in …
  • … and Francis Darwin’s visits to Southampton; Francis must have written after Emma and CD’s …

From Francis Darwin   [4 May 1875]

Summary

Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4 May 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961G

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] and n.  2). Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Lady …
  • … Dorothy Nevill came to lunch with the Darwins on 4 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
  • … DAR 242)); Emma Darwin implied that the visit from Nevill would be a strain because …
  • … adoring (if possible)’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [1 May 1875] (DAR …

From Francis Darwin   [6 July 1879]

Summary

Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12296F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has …
  • … hotel around 10 July 1879 (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [10 July 1879] (DAR …

From Francis Darwin   2 May 1876

Summary

Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10492F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … by Richard Ruck in October (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [24–5 October …
  • … away around 23 April 1876 ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 24 April [1876] ( …

From Francis Darwin   14 May 1881

Summary

News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13155F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … The letters to Francis from Elizabeth Darwin and Emma Darwin have not been found. …
  • … Dandy is mentioned in a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [13 April 1868] (DAR …
  • … Dubs: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, who had stayed behind with Emma and CD at Down …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol. 23, Appendix II); he and Emma Darwin stayed at Henrietta Emma Litchfield’s …
  • … at 2 Bryanston Street ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 20 December [1875] (DAR …

From Francis Darwin   3 March [1879]

Summary

Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11913F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … having left Down on 4 February 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He arrived back at …
  • … G. H. Darwin, 3 March 1879 ; letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [12 March 1879] (DAR …

From Francis Darwin   [after 3 June 1875]

Summary

Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 3 June 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10007F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … in Down ( Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 24 December [ …
  • … 1876] ). Edward Emanuel Klein . CD and Emma Darwin stayed at Abinger Hall, Dorking, …

From Francis Darwin   [2 June 1876]

Summary

Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [2 June 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10526F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … at Hopedene in Surrey on 3 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had discovered …
  • … Amy, arrived at Hopedene on 3 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis’s paper ‘On …

From Francis Darwin   [14 June? 1877]

Summary

Forwards letters.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14 June? 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10762F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … St Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3] February …
  • … to Bernard’s first two teeth. CD and Emma Darwin were away from home from 8 June until 4 …

From Francis Darwin   [12 September 1878]

Summary

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 Sept 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11690F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … way to visit Sara’s relatives in Boston, Massachussetts ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
  • … 115)); they sailed on 14 September ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Joseph Dalton Hooker …

From Francis Darwin   27 May 1876

Summary

Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10515G

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Pflanzenreiches ( Wiesner 1873 ). CD and Emma Darwin visited Hopedene, Holmbury St Mary, …
  • … in a horse-riding accident on 10 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter to W. D. Fox, …

From Francis Darwin   19 [May 1881]

Summary

Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [May 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13166F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 ). Julius …

From Francis Darwin   [before 31 July 1879]

Summary

Discusses Müller-Thurgau’s work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 31 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12177F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Lake District from 2 to 27 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The ‘French life’ …
  • … in the Lake District on 4 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the Sunday before …

From Francis Darwin   4 July 1879

Summary

Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.

FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 209.3: 334
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12134

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1879] ). See letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 and n. 5. Francis was …

From Francis Darwin   [after 28 February 1878]

Summary

He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 28 Feb 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754G

Matches: 2 hits

  • … instrument, see Nature , 15 September 1881, p. 470. CD and Emma Darwin stayed at the home …
  • Emma Litchfield at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 27 February to 5 March (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Bernard Darwin . …

From Francis Darwin   [after 2 October 1876]

Summary

Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 2 Oct 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10629F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … was Fischer 1874b . Mary Anne Ruck . Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. CD stayed at …
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