From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 3 February [1871]
Summary
Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.
Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8198 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [25 February 1871]
Summary
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | [25 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 390) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516F |
From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 9 February [1871]
Summary
Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.
Author: | Robert Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8205 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wedgwood, Robert Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From Robert Wedgwood to Emma Darwin 9 February [1871] …
- … 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226 Robert Wedgwood Dumbleton 9 Feb [1871] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Emma— I enclose you two letters from two intelligent men—both of them large farmers. Indeed all that I have spoken to are unanimous in saying that the Ridges remain unchanged in Shape. Y rs . ever— R. Wedgwood Chadbury | near Evesham Feb y 7. 1871 My dear Sir— There are several fields at Dumbleton which will enable you to answer M r . Darwin’ …
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 16, letter from W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 28 February [1868] , and letter from W. …
- … see the letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 February 1871 . Henrietta Emma Darwin had an attack …
- … of measles in January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Following the Elementary Education …
- … Erasmus Alvey Darwin lived at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. CD and Emma stayed at Erasmus’s …
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
To E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Lubbock family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9794F |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 February 1871
Summary
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7488 |
To James Crichton-Browne 20 February [1871]
Summary
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7499 |
From Ernst Haeckel 24 February 1871
Summary
Received copy of Descent.
Discusses CD’s comments on EH’s work.
Speculates about reception by press and scientists.
Remarks on sexual selection;
on human relationship to catarrhine apes.
Has rejected offer of chair at Vienna.
Compares Jena to Down.
Describes growth of his salary.
Mentions birth of Emma Haeckel.
A. M. Norman’s collection of calcareous sponges is very valuable.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7510 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin has the greatest sphere of influence of all scientists today! ” Since I have been staying here, my financial circumstances have much improved. I have been here for ten years now. In the first 5 I had only 50 £, in the past 5 100 £. Now my income has again been doubled, and I receive 200 £ Sterling. With this I can really better sustain my little family. On 10 January it was increased by one little Emma. …
- … Darwin hat dort demnoch den grössten Wirkungskreis von allen heutigen Naturforschern! ” Da ich nun hier geblieben bin, haben sich auch meine materiellen Verhältnisse sehr gebessert. Ich bin jetzt zehn Jahre grade hier. In den ersten 5 Jahren hatte ich nur 50 £, in den letzten 5 Jahren 100 £ Gehalt. Jetzt ist nun mein Gehalt wieder verdoppelt worden, und ich bekomme 200 £ Sterl. Damit kann ich meine kleine Familie schon besser ernähren. Sie ist am 10. Januar um eine kleine Emma …
letter | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Wedgwood, Robert | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Robert | (2) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |