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 [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 G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
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 |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
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 |
From D. F. Nevill 2 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10039 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
From Lawson Tait 2 June [1875]
Summary
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007 |
From T. F. Burgers 13 May 1875
Summary
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
| Author: | Thomas François Burgers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C11v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9978 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 10 April 1875
Summary
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9922A |
From D. F. Nevill 14 [February 1875]
Summary
Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9854 |
From J. B. Innes 7 May 1875
Summary
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9973 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter from J. B. Innes, 13 June 1868 . ) Emma Darwin had received seeds of Aquilegia ( …
- … Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] and …
- … Emma’s name for a variety that Innes grew in his garden. The Bromley Record , 1 May 1875, p. 226, reported that Francis Darwin …
From M. C. Stanley 14 September 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10157 |
From John Tyndall 23 October [1875]
Summary
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10218 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 April 1875
Summary
Approves vivisection memorial.
Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.
Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9932 |
From C. E. Norton 22 September 1875
Summary
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
| Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10166 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 July 1875
Summary
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10061 |
From Francis Galton 2 June 1875
Summary
Interested to hear about the peas.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10005 |
| letter | (32) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (4) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (4) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
