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 Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … DAR 97: A7 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Charles Robert Darwin unstated [20 May 1864] William …
- … From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] …
- … recently visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and …
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 …
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … including Spencer 1851 , to which Emma Darwin refers here, in his letter of 2 January …
- … John Scott, 8 January [1864] and n. 4. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 10 January 1864 …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. …
- … first section of the letter in pencil; Emma Darwin wrote and signed the second section of …
- … the letter. For 11 January 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recorded sickness at 8: …
- … many times’), and 2:00 (‘twice in night’). Emma Darwin refers to the manuscript of Scott …
- … 7 January [1864] , and letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Hooker did …
- … Emma has written a few lines to M rs . Boott— Do you know her maiden name: I suspect she is grandaughter of D r . Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 5 [December 1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [7 December 1863] , and …
- … on Sunday. Most of the letter is in Emma Darwin’s hand; CD or Emma retained Hooker’s error …
- … on CD’s health, see the letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] and …
- … Jenner visited CD on 20 March 1864 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from J. …
- … Hooker, 16 March 1864 , and letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . …
- … J. D. Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n. 2). Emma Darwin did not report any sickness in her …
- … 9 February [1864] , and letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1864] . …
- … Most of the letter is in the hand of Emma Darwin ; only the paragraph headed ‘ Sunday …
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 |
To Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood 28 June [1864]
Summary
Family matters; CD’s feelings on death of FW’s son [James Mackintosh Wedgwood, 1834–64].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 28 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.300) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4547 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hensleigh Wedgwood . CD refers to Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood and to Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
- … at Malvern to help look after Anne (see ibid. , letter to Emma Darwin, [21 April 1851] , …
- … and letter from Emma Darwin, [23 April 1851] ). She also arranged for Anne’s burial after …
- … Mss.B.D25.300) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 June [1864] Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) …
- … Emma Elizabeth and Hensleigh Wedgwood , died on 24 June 1864 after a long illness (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , p. 279; see also letter from E. A. Darwin, [ …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
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 …
| letter | (70) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Jenner, William | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (24) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (9) |
| Lubbock, John | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Jenner, William | (3) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Bennett, William | (1) |
| Boott, Mary | (1) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hardcastle, Mary | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
