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From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 June 1879

Summary

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  30 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12128F

Matches: 7 hits

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  • Darwin, Francis Wedgwood, Emma
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … DAR 274.1: 49 Francis Darwin 30 June 1879 Emma
  • … Darwin visited Norway in August 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The American has …
  • … they returned to Down on 18 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Villars-sur-Ollon …

From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin   [after 16 October 1868]

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Summary

Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.

Is sending preparations of beetles.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [after 16 Oct 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 82: A96–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5761

Matches: 5 hits

From Francis Darwin   [1–15 March 1873]

Summary

Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn’t suit him. May go to Pryor’s on Sunday.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1–15 Mar 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8714F

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Down for London on 15 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George Howard Darwin . …
  • … tonic (see Harley ed.  1876, p.  294). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary, ‘began Arsenic’ …
  • … Joseph Parslow . Moore visited Down on 1 March 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin had influenza from 26 February  …
  • … 1873 until about 6 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [6 March 1873] , DAR 258: 573). …

From Francis Darwin   [31 May 1876]

Summary

Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10517F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … and n. 5). The weather on Sunday 28 May 1876 was pleasant, and CD and Emma Darwin went up …
  • … Holmbury Hill ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis, possibly …
  • … came to Hopedene on 3 June 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He also refers to …
  • … for Leonard Darwin , who was at Down from 8 May 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … on 10 May; he was staying with CD and Emma Darwin at Hopedene (see letter from Francis …

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 …

To Francis Darwin   16 and 17 May 1881

Summary

Some papers have arrived for FD.

Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.

Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  16 and 17 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13159

Matches: 6 hits

  • … was a pet name for Francis’s son Bernard Darwin . Emma Darwin visited Ellen Harriet Tollet …
  • … on 17 May 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a …
  • … They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was …
  • … sinking has not been identified. Augusta Dickson , Emma Darwin 's maid, had been taken ill …
  • … at the beginning of May ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3 May 1881] ; DAR …

To Francis Darwin   [21 November 1878]

Summary

Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [21 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754

Matches: 5 hits

  • … attended ( Royal Cornwall Gazette , 20 December 1878, p. 2; Emma Darwin to H. E. …
  • … 10 December 1878] (DAR 219.9: 185), and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [10 December 1878] ( …
  • … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 21 November [1878] . Emma Darwin attended a concert at Bryanston Square …
  • … in London on 19 November 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); CD and Emma …
  • Emma Litchfield at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 19 to 27 November (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD visited George John Romanes (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 [November 1878] ). On 9 December 1878, Francis Darwin

To Francis Darwin   [17 August 1878]

Summary

Instructions to sow some seeds

and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.

Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [17 Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11668

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin returned to Down on 12 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had been …
  • … Hugo de Vries visited CD at Abinger on 14 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … visited Barlaston, Staffordshire, the home of Emma Darwin’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his …
  • … family, from 15 to 22 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the only Saturday …

From Francis Darwin   [25–7 May 1880]

Summary

Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25–7 May 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12616F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin left …
  • … and Francis lived with CD and Emma Darwin , and had accompanied them to Southampton …
  • … on their previous annual visit ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
  • … 10 May 1879] (DAR 219.9: 196)). Emma Darwin’s diary records that Francis Darwin arrived in …
  • … and Francis Darwin’s visits to Southampton; Francis must have written after Emma and CD’s …

To Francis Darwin   25 May [1881]

Summary

Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 May [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13174

Matches: 3 hits

  • … regularly sent paper soldiers to Bernard. The postscript was written by Emma Darwin . …
  • … was written between the lines by Emma Darwin . See letter from Francis Darwin, 23 [May …
  • … nurse, Pauline Badel ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [12 September 1879] , …

To Francis Darwin   [2 June 1876]

Summary

Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [2 June 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 271.3: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10526

Matches: 3 hits

  • … on 10 May 1876, when his horse fell ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter to W. D. Fox, …
  • … Paget on 30 May and returned on 31 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter from James …
  • … at Hopedene in Surrey on 3 June 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD evidently wanted …

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 …

To Francis Darwin   2 July [1879]

Summary

FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  2 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12132

Matches: 3 hits

  • … between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 . …
  • … See letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 and n. 4. CD and Francis had …
  • Darwin, [before 26 June 1879] and n. 3). The results Francis described in his letter to Emma

From Francis Darwin   [6 July 1879]

Summary

Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12296F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has …
  • … hotel around 10 July 1879 (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [10 July 1879] (DAR …

From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin   22 February 1882

Summary

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1882
Classmark:  Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13697F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … certificate he has signed with pleasure. Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that …
  • … 28 February 1882 (DAR 210.3: 41), Emma Darwin wrote, ‘The Bradlaugh affair is disgusting & …

To Francis Darwin   17 October 1881

Summary

Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".

Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  17 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13411

Matches: 4 hits

  • … fever in the village (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
  • … deceased wife’s family (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
  • … 17 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, was …
  • … Laslett was a local builder. Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood visited the Darwins from 6 to …

To Francis Darwin   12 July [1879]

Summary

Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.

Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.

Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  12 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12152

Matches: 3 hits

  • … District from 2 to 27 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD jokingly alludes to …
  • … Erasmus Alvey Darwin , and Emma Darwin . The Darwins stayed at …
  • … CD’s biographical sketch for Erasmus Darwin ; among them were Henrietta Emma Litchfield , …

From Francis Darwin   2 May 1876

Summary

Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10492F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … by Richard Ruck in October (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [24–5 October …
  • … away around 23 April 1876 ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 24 April [1876] ( …

From Francis Darwin   14 May 1881

Summary

News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13155F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … The letters to Francis from Elizabeth Darwin and Emma Darwin have not been found. …
  • … Dandy is mentioned in a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [13 April 1868] (DAR …
  • … Dubs: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, who had stayed behind with Emma and CD at Down …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol. 23, Appendix II); he and Emma Darwin stayed at Henrietta Emma Litchfield’s …
  • … at 2 Bryanston Street ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 20 December [1875] (DAR …
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