From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Summary
Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the best chemist in the world’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 118 n. 2; see also Correspondence …
- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864? ] . Erasmus …
- … March 1864 (see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [March 1864? ] and n. 4). …
From William Jenner 14 August 1864
Summary
CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4589 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … had visited Down on 20 March, 10 April, and 22 May 1864 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Emma Darwin may have taken this sample to Jenner when she visited him in London on 5 July …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD ‘ …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6 …
- … Royle and Headland 1865, pp. 636–8). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD began …
- … podophyllin, see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 [ March 1864? ] and n. 4, …
- … prescription has not been found; however, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 17 August …
From E. A. Darwin 7 May [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4489 |
From Edward Cresy 29 July 1864
Summary
Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.
Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4579 |
From William Jenner 15 October 1864
Summary
Prescribes continuing the phosphate of iron.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4637 |
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Summary
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]
Summary
Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4502 |
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
Matches: 2 hits
From E. A. Darwin 15 December [1864]
Summary
Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4717 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From William Bennett 25 May 1864
Summary
Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.
| Author: | William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4509 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Willis 1973 ). Henry Lettington’s visit is recorded in a letter from Emma Darwin to …
- … to her daughter Etty, or Henrietta Emma Darwin . ‘Duberry’ was probably Mark Duberry , a …
- … Darwin, [3 June 1864] , in DAR 219.1: 82: Lettington went the other day to the old quaker gent near Betchworth for Leersia. A very nice old vegetarian & Tee total quaker & sent Etty the rarest English fern. Neither Lett. nor Duberry had the sense to take umbrella or great coat so they were some hours in that cold N.E. rain & caught a cold— Emma …
From W. D. Fox 5 [May 1864]
Summary
Would like to come to Down to visit.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4484 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
From Mary Boott 18 January 1864
Summary
On his deathbed her husband [Francis] expressed admiration for CD.
| Author: | Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4391 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
From F. T. Buckland 13 December 1864
Summary
Sorry to hear CD ill.
On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 357 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4714 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
| letter | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Jenner, William | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Jenner, William | (3) |
