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From Emma Darwin to W. D. Whitney   9 May [1875]

Summary

CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  William Dwight Whitney
Date:  9 May [1875]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9974F

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  • … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Whitney, W. D. …
  • … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Whitney   9 May [1875] …
  • … 600 1875 May 6-10) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 9 May [1875] William Dwight Whitney …
  • … stay abroad & that you will write to him— My dear Sir | yours very truly | Emma Darwin
  • … Buckley Litchfield visited on Saturday 8 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Darwin to W.  D.  Whitney, 21 December 1875 ). CD recorded in his ‘Journal’ that he ‘finished slips of Insectivorous Plants’ on 23 May 1875 (see Appendix II). Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer and Henrietta Emma

From Francis Darwin   1 and 2 May [1875]

Summary

Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 and 2 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961F

Matches: 4 hits

  • … and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. …
  • … on Hawaii ( Bird 1875 ) because he knew that Emma Darwin considered Bird ‘such a romancer’ …
  • … her not worth reading ( letter from Emma Darwin to William Darwin, [5 March 1875] (DAR …
  • … the plants that Francis mentions to Emma Darwin may have been intended for the garden …

From Francis Darwin   [4 May 1875]

Summary

Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4 May 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961G

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, 1 and 2 May [1875] and n.  2). Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Lady …
  • … Dorothy Nevill came to lunch with the Darwins on 4 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
  • … DAR 242)); Emma Darwin implied that the visit from Nevill would be a strain because …
  • … adoring (if possible)’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [1 May 1875] (DAR …

To ?   4 May [1875]

Summary

Sends photograph.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  4 May [1875]
Classmark:  eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9970

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see this volume, Supplement, letter from Emma Darwin to ? , [October 1874 – April 1882] . …

To T. H. Huxley   21 May 1875

Summary

CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  21 May 1875
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9986

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from 6 to 12 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin recorded that CD was ‘hard at work about vivisection’ during this time ( …

To W. D. Whitney   8 May 1875

Summary

Hopes WDW will come to Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Dwight Whitney
Date:  8 May 1875
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9974

Matches: 1 hit

  • … to Down on the South Eastern Railway . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Thomas …

From T. F. Burgers   13 May 1875

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Summary

Would like to call on CD if convenient.

Author:  Thomas François Burgers
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 97: C11v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9978

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  • … is no record of a visit from Burgers in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), but it is possible …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   1 May [1875]

Summary

CD is delighted to hear that JSBS’s exertions and labour will probably be rewarded by success. He has had a note from Playfair who, like Lubbock, thinks the title and preamble [of the proposed bill] "had better wear a more humanitarian aspect".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  1 May [1875]
Classmark:  University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9963

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  • … Emma, visited Down on 1 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from Edward …

From J. B. Innes   7 May 1875

Summary

Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,

and about Scottish education.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 167: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9973

Matches: 3 hits

  • … letter from J.  B.  Innes, 13 June 1868 . ) Emma Darwin had received seeds of Aquilegia ( …
  • … Correspondence vol.  22, letter from Emma Darwin to J.  B.  Innes, 12 October [1874] and …
  • Emma’s name for a variety that Innes grew in his garden. The Bromley Record , 1 May 1875, p. 226, reported that Francis Darwin

To T. F. Burgers   [after 13 May 1875]

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Summary

Proposes that TFB visit in about a week; at present CD is unwell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas François Burgers
Date:  [after 13 May 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 97: C11r
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9979

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1875 ); there is no record of a visit in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), but CD mentioned …

To J. B. Innes   10 May [1875]

Summary

On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.

Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  10 May [1875]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9975

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Moore 1985 , pp.  468–9). Innes had given Emma Darwin some seeds of a variety of columbine …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   3 May 1875

Summary

Encloses the bill with its corrected preamble. How many copies would he like?

Hopes JSBS can attend the meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on 5 May 1875.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  3 May 1875
Classmark:  University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9966F

Matches: 1 hit

  • Emma on his own writing style (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 18, letter to H. E. Darwin, [ …