From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
- … in Cannes in 1870 ( letter from H. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 3 March 1870 (DAR 245: 36)). …
- … Henrietta Emma Litchfield Bournemouth 21 Mar [1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood . CD and Emma stayed at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne …
- … Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). Henrietta was staying with Edmund and Emily Caroline Langton (Lena) in Bournemouth (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix VI). Cumberland Place, Regent’s Park, London was the home of Hensleigh and Frances Emma …
From H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088F |
From H. E. Litchfield [13 November 1871]
Summary
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054F |
From H. E. Litchfield 9 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929A |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1871
Summary
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7877 |
Matches: 4 hits
From G. H. Darwin [17 July 1871]
Summary
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7841 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … had evidently discussed Henrietta Emma Darwin’s marriage settlement with him. Henrietta …
- … 1871 and married him on 31 August ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 204). Henrietta and Elizabeth …
- … This visit to London is not recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) or CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 16, letter from W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 28 February [1868] , and letter from W. …
- … see the letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 February 1871 . Henrietta Emma Darwin had an attack …
- … of measles in January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Following the Elementary Education …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin lived at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. CD and Emma stayed at Erasmus’s …
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Summary
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Emma …
- … St, London [5 Nov 1871] Charles Robert Darwin Emma …
- … From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871] …
- … DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield 6 Queen Anne …
- … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Darwin, H. E. Litchfield, H. E. Darwin, C. R. Wedgwood, Emma …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Litchfield, Henrietta Emma. …
- … Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood . St George’s Hall was a function room in Langham Place, Regent Street, London. William George Clark , a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently published a tract that was critical of Anglican orthodoxy ( ODNB ). Anne Parslow was probably Henrietta’s lady’s maid, and Elizabeth Pearce , who as Bessy Harding had been the Darwin …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 29 January 1871
Summary
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7463 |
From Karl Scherzer 28 May 1871
Summary
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
| Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9998 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
From George Cupples 22 April 1871
Summary
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 111–12c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7707 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1871
Summary
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7600 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 19 August [1871]
Summary
A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.
The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.
Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.
His brother-in-law has been arrested.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7911 |
From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Summary
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1871
Summary
Has seen CD’s sons.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8004 |
| letter | (47) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (5) |
