From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Summary
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
Matches: 4 hits
From E. A. Darwin 24 August [1865]
Summary
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … rented for the summer of 1865 by the Hensleigh Wedgwood s ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 207). …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin and George Howard Darwin had spent some time there in June with some …
- … Wedgwood cousins (letter from H. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin , DAR 245: 26; this letter …
- … Sarah, who was CD’s sister, and to Emma Darwin . Both Emma and CD had owned Monmouth Canal …
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Summary
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
| Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … translation of this memorandum by Emma Darwin in DAR 80: B42–3. For a transcription of …
- … translation of this memorandum by Emma Darwin in DAR 80: B42–3. The date range is …
- … memorandum and the letters in which CD and Emma Darwin mention that CD is working on the …
- … 10 [April 1865] , and letters from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [6 June 1865] and [21 …
- … and letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1862] . In a letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … E. Darwin, [6 June 1865] , in DAR 219.9: 27, Emma reported that CD was at work ‘on the …
- … Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 513–23). CD refers to Lucas 1847–50 in an annotation to Emma’ …
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 14. The …
- … June [1865]. See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … miscarriage (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … Tylor (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. …
- … umbellules (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … to the stem (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … Review in the letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] , and …
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [27 August – 1 September 1865]
Summary
JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4603 |
From Thomas Gold Appleton 5 December [1865]
Summary
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5296 |
From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
From Edward Cresy 18 October 1865
Summary
How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4918 |
From Edward Cresy 30 May 1865
Summary
Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].
Plans to visit CD.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4842 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 September [1865]
Summary
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4889 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker [27 January 1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker will not be able to visit CD because of ill health.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 231–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4879 |
From F. H. Hooker [17 August 1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker is ill with rheumatic fever.
W. J. Hooker is dead and was buried yesterday.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Aug 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 233–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4883 |
From Henry Holland 25 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4865 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
From E. A. Darwin [20 November 1865?]
Summary
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4938 |
From Edward Cresy 10 September 1865
Summary
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4892 |
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 28 December 1865
Summary
Sending cheque for Down parish charities.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4958 |
| letter | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (3) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (3) |
