To Edward Cresy 15 September [1862]
Summary
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 322 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3724 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 October 1862]
Summary
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 July [1862]
Summary
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644F |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letter to Hugh Falconer, [8 May 1862] . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that CD was …
- … 1857 until January 1859, Miss Pugh had been the governess of the Darwin children ( Emma …
- … in Kew, Surrey (see the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [14 May 1862] in DAR …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). According to Henrietta Emma Litchfield’s autobiography (DAR …
From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59), Emma Darwin reported that Susan Elizabeth Darwin , …
- … due to arrive on 1 August (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [late July 1862] (DAR …
- … end of Francis and George’s stay (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [July 1862? ] ( …
- … Emma had previously written to say that Jessie Brodie , who had been William and Anne Elizabeth Darwin ’ …
From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 [June 1862]
Summary
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 August [1862]
Summary
WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3687 |
To John Lubbock 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3783 |
From John Lubbock 29 January 1862
Summary
Will visit CD on Saturday.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3417 |
To W. E. Darwin [10? September 1862]
Summary
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 |
To H. W. Bates 16 April [1862]
Summary
Invitation to visit; Hooker will be present. Gives directions to Down. Also plans to invite John Lubbock over for an evening.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3507 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862
Summary
Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3683 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Throughout 1860 and 1861, Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill with a fever diagnosed as a …
- … vols. 8 and 9). On 13 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Etty …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until 11 February 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … as before’. Horace Darwin had been seriously ill earlier in the year, and Emma and Leonard …
To W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862]
Summary
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 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
To H. W. Bates 15 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for news of HWB and his book.
There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.
Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3764 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew. Frances Harriet Hooker’s letter to Emma Darwin has not been found. …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin . The reference is to the optician and scientific instrument maker, …
- … III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and ‘Journal’ ( …
- … Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). The Darwins stayed at the home of Emma’s brother, Josiah Wedgwood …
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| Sulivan, B. J. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
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| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Bates, H. W. | (5) |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (24) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Lubbock, John | (10) |
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