To H. E. Litchfield 4 September [1871]
Summary
An affectionate letter to HL on her honeymoon. Urges her to keep her mother as an example.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7922 |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
From H. E. Litchfield [before 2 December 1871]
Summary
Summarises her theory about expression in music.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8088F |
To J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
From H. E. Litchfield [13 November 1871]
Summary
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054F |
From H. E. Litchfield 9 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929A |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin 1 April 1871
Summary
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 68–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7651 |
From S. R. S. Norton and C. E. Norton to H. E. Darwin 21 August [1871]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
| Author: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7914 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1871
Summary
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7877 |
Matches: 4 hits
From G. H. Darwin [17 July 1871]
Summary
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7841 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … had evidently discussed Henrietta Emma Darwin’s marriage settlement with him. Henrietta …
- … 1871 and married him on 31 August ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 204). Henrietta and Elizabeth …
- … This visit to London is not recorded in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) or CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …
To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Huxley ; see letter from J. D Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 and n. 4. See, …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 . CD refers to Hooker’s …
- … to visit the Darwins (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). …
- … In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry …
- … lived in Southampton. In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked …
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 …
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Summary
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
To Asa Gray 16 July [1871]
Summary
CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7867 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1977 ). The list of places has not been found. In September 1871, Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that George Howard and Francis Darwin were on …
- … en route for California ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [12 September 1871] ( …
- … tour ( letter from Frances Allen to Emma Darwin, 10 November [1871] (DAR 219.11: 13)). …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 29 January 1871
Summary
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7463 |
From Karl Scherzer 28 May 1871
Summary
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
| Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9998 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was engaged to marry …
- … Richard Buckley Litchfield (see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). St George Jackson Mivart’s …
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
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 B. J. Sulivan 13 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7579 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
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| Darwin, H. E. | (15) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (15) |
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