To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … There is no reference to illness in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). Cobbe had published a …
- … £1. – | I am, Sir, yours &c. | Charles Darwin | Down, Beckenham, Kent. Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that CD thought the publication of the letter ‘unjustifiable’ and …
- … in this form without his consent ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 302). The original article did …
From John and Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870]
Author: | John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 23 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 168v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7240F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Pender, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Denison/Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870] Charles Robert Darwin Pender, John Denison, Emma …
- … Edward VII) at a Royal Society of London soirée on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: …
- … 184–5; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The party at the Penders’ London house was to …
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870]
Summary
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [8 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7124 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870] …
- … 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down [8 Feb 1870] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … established by the relationship between this letter and a letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … England in January 1870 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [18 January 1870] ( …
- … E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] (DAR 219.9: 72), in which Emma says she is enclosing a …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]
Summary
Wishes to visit Down.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7302 |
From H. E. Darwin [after 8 February 1870]
Summary
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 February 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 245: 33b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112F |
To H. E. Darwin [March] 1870
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [Mar] 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7123 |
To H. B. Jones 3 August [1870]
Summary
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293A |
From Adam Sedgwick 30 May 1870
Summary
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
From H. E. Darwin [30 March 1870]
Summary
Describes crying in an infant.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7153 |
To W. D. Fox 18 February [1870]
Summary
Invites WDF to visit.
Describes activities of his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 18 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7113 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
From George Cupples 14 November 1870
Summary
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7369 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From Federico Delpino 20 May 1870
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7196 |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1870s?] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
From Benjamin Collins Brodie 9 June 1870
Summary
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
Author: | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7225 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
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Cupples, George | (2) |
Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
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Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
Darwin, H. E. | (4) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Newton, Alfred | (2) |
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Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
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Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
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Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
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Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (1) |