To Fritz Müller 24 July 1878
Summary
Thanks for seeds
and information about earthworms.
Is working hard at movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 24 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11626 |
From W. M. Hacon 28 December 1878
Summary
Sending second codicil for CD to sign.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11807 |
To Francis Darwin 25 July [1878]
Summary
Is forwarding the writing machine to Carl Semper.
Is glad FD has taken up his old friends, the twiners.
Hopes to get heliotropic aerial roots from J. D. Hooker. Asks FD to find out whether any moulds or roots are apheliotropic. Is puzzled by heliotropism in subterranean roots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11631 |
From Federico Delpino 23 April 1878
Summary
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11482 |
To Anthony Rich 9 December 1878
Summary
Is deeply gratified by AR’s proposed generosity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anthony Rich |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.12: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11781 |
From W. M. Hacon 20 December 1878
Summary
Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11800 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 November 1878]
Summary
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Pelargonium . Ubbadubba: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son. Idy: Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer. …
- … Darwin Pamphlet Collection CUL. The other pamphlet has not been identified. There was a newsagent at 10 New Quebec Street, London ( Post Office London directory 1878); it was near the home of Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma …
From G. H. Darwin [before 11 July 1878]
Summary
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11600 |
From Raphael Meldola 25 November 1878
Summary
Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11758 |
To Edward Frankland 22 November [1878]
Summary
Asks whether he may call to discuss a chemico-physiological point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2179) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11755A |
To M. L. Pennington 24 October 1878
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Margaret Landell Sharpe; Margaret Landell Pennington |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (25 January 2022, lot 132) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11727F |
To E. A. Darwin 12 December 1878
Summary
Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11789 |
To Sara Darwin [1 March 1878]
Summary
Hopes to visit [Sara and William] later in the year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11392 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … William Erasmus Darwin were married on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield , at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 27 February to 5 March 1878, ‘on account of Giddiness’ (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The only Friday in this period was 1 March. Sara Darwin ’ …
- … Emma did think of offering ourselves to you, but I dreaded the length of the journey & I wished to see D r . Clark. — I am somewhat better but much to boast of. — At some future time we hope to come to you, & our visits to William have been to me the greatest pleasure in the year, & now we shall have the additional pleasure of seeing you there. Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin …
To S. B. J. Skertchly 2 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 480 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11394 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 November [1878]
Summary
CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 207–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11753 |
From Anthony Rich 29 December 1878
Summary
He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.12: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11810 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 June [1878]
Summary
Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11550 |
To W. E. Darwin 12 December [1878]
Summary
Writes of Anthony Rich’s bequest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11786 |
To W. D. Fox 10 July 1878
Summary
Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 10 July 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11598 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma desires me to say how much she sympathises with you both. It is no use whatever my writing; but I could not endure not to do so. — I hope she did not suffer much. Do not write to me, unless doing something is a little relief to you. God bless you my dear old friend. I hope you & M rs Fox are fairly well in bodily health. Yours affectionately | Charles Darwin …
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