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To W. E. Darwin   4 [July 1862]

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Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  4 [July 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3641

Matches: 10 hits

  • … 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 …
  • … ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Horace Darwin . …
  • … from January 1857 to January 1859 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and CD’s Classed …
  • … since early in the year (see letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [2 March 1862], [ …
  • … to Camilla Ludwig, 26 August [1862] , Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s Classed …
  • … 5 for ‘education’ (see CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS), Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242), and letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [27 May 1862] (DAR 219.1: 57)). …
  • … until the return of Camilla Ludwig in November (see letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E.   …
  • … 6 November 1862] (DAR 219.1: 61, 64), and Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). Miss Rendle has not …

To W. E. Darwin   [2–3 September 1862]

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Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [2–3 Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3673

Matches: 6 hits

  • … WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum ? ]. [Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso. ] …
  • … and by reference to the letter to William from Emma Darwin , written on the verso of this …
  • … his first free Saturday; according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William first visited …
  • … on 13 August 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). At the end of August 1862, during his …
  • … letter. CD, Emma, and Leonard Darwin stayed with William in Southampton until 1 September  …
  • … 12 June 1862 (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ); Emma contracted the fever …

To W. E. Darwin   30 [October 1862]

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Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.

Discusses family affairs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  30 [Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 107
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3789

Matches: 9 hits

  • … and the letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [19 November 1862] and [2 December  …
  • … Hampshire Bank, Southampton. Henrietta Emma Darwin . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [ …
  • … s visit to Down House on 31 October, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Ch. …
  • … in Kensington run by Miss Buob, on 27 January 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
  • … and the letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [29 October 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 63). …
  • … in the year. See the letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , [2 March  …
  • … in DAR 219.1: 49, 57, 64; see also Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s Classed account …
  • … of Down. On Saturday 1 November 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …
  • … having become friendly with Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …

To W. E. Darwin   26 April [1862]

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Thanks WED for eyeglass.

Reports on health of Horace and family matters.

Has finished Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  26 Apr [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3520

Matches: 8 hits

  • … proofs of Orchids (see n.  6, below). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that the ‘Boys …
  • … Mackintosh Wedgwood. There is an entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on 25 April 1862  …
  • … when Joseph Dalton Hooker was also visiting Down House ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Grammar School. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [3 February 1862] (DAR …
  • … book (Down House MS), letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [13 December 1862] (DAR …
  • … to G.  V.  Reed, 12 January 1863) . Emma Darwin wrote in her diary (DAR 242) that she ‘ …
  • … George (see, for example, the letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E. Darwin, [26 March 1858] ( …
  • … beginning of the year. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Camilla Ludwig , the …

To W. E. Darwin   [2–3 August 1862]

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Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.

Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [2–3 Aug 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3678

Matches: 5 hits

  • … H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59), Emma Darwin reported that ‘Aunt Susan’ had ‘a great …
  • … was recovering from scarlet fever (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and letter to W.   …
  • … Brodie, who was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178; see also letter to W.  E. …

To W. E. Darwin   [8 May 1862]

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Hooker has written about WED’s going to Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [8 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3525

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Darwin was ill throughout the early part of 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Hooker, [5 May 1862] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD travelled to London …

To W. E. Darwin   [31 May 1862]

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Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.

Has been dissecting Viola flowers.

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3580

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Oxenden. Has been dissecting Viola flowers. [Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3. ] …
  • … V. odorata is sweet violet The entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 31 May 1862  …
  • … to Asa Gray, 11 April [1861] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), she and Horace …

To W. E. Darwin   [25 October 1862]

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Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [25 Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3782

Matches: 3 hits

  • … and n.  5, letter from W. E. Darwin, 23 October [1862], and n. 5. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
  • … 242) records that Henrietta Emma Darwin returned to Down House on 22 October 1862, and …
  • … m[ornin]g as before’. On 25 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that …

To W. E. Darwin   13 [June 1862]

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Leonard has scarlet fever; CD is sorry WED is unwell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  13 [June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3601

Matches: 2 hits

  • … fever (see n.  3, below). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), she and Horace …
  • … Charles Pritchard, 17 June [1862] ). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records, on 12 June  …

To W. E. Darwin   [10? September 1862]

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Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [10? Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3704

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Greenwich ( DNB ). Leonard and Emma Darwin were recovering from scarlet fever (see letter …
  • … in September 1862. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), William first visited them …
  • … the references to the health of Emma and Leonard Darwin (see n.  4, below), and to William …

To W. E. Darwin   [24 July 1862]

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Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [24 July 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3632

Matches: 2 hits

  • … to a postscript, written in pencil, in Emma Darwin’s hand: ‘Enquire a little about quiet …
  • … was recovering from scarlet fever ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also letter to Asa …

To William Erasmus Darwin   14 February [1862]

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Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.

Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.

Has sent Orchids MS to printers

and will work a little at dimorphism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3447

Matches: 3 hits

  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [22 January 1860] ). Emma Darwin took Horace to Headland on 11 February  …
  • … are to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s eldest sister, and CD’s niece, Mary Susan …
  • … illness during early 1862 are recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). CD had begun to …

To W. E. Darwin   [after 14 July 1862]

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Leonard’s illness.

Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [after 14 July 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3650

Matches: 1 hit

  • … was suffering from scarlet fever ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also letters to W.   …

To W. E. Darwin   9 July [1862]

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Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.

Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  9 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3649

Matches: 1 hit

  • … from scarlet fever since 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In the letter to …
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