From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
From E. W. Fithian 30 May 1878
Summary
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
| Author: | Edward William Fithian |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11535 |
From G. J. Romanes 10 April 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter of sympathy.
Would like to visit in May.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11469 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 December 1878
Summary
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11796 |
From W. E. Darwin 10 July [1878]
Summary
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11597F |
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 |
From John Tyndall 5 December 1878
Summary
Will provide the siren.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11774 |
From T. H. Noyes 19 November 1878
Summary
THN, a medium with a gift to cure occult diseases, outlines a course of treatment to remedy CD’s ailments.
| Author: | Thomas Herbert Noyes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11749 |
From W. D. Fox 12 February [1878]
Summary
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11355 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 7 November 1878
Summary
Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 71, The Royal Society (RR/8/91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11738 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 29 January 1878
Summary
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11339 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 July 1878
Summary
Burdened with Anniversary Address to the Royal Society.
Quips that even Huxley is running out of speeches.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11636 |
From Francis Darwin [12 July 1878]
Summary
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11604 |
From Francis Darwin [4–7 August 1878]
Summary
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–7 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11632 |
From Eduard Strasburger 26 October 1878
Summary
EAS eagerly awaits the publication of CD’s work on heliotropism.
Sends him a paper on "Polyembryonie" [Jenaische Z. Med. & Naturwiss. 12 (1878): 647–70].
| Author: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11728 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 January 1878
Summary
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11336 |
From Francis Darwin [12 May 1878]
Summary
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504F |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 3 February 1878]
Summary
The amphicarpic habit.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5825 |
| letter | (27) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
