From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 1 September [1875?]
Summary
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1875?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10146 |
Matches: 6 hits
From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall 7 October [1875]
Summary
An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Tyndall, John …
- … From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall 7 October [1875] …
- … DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin 7 Oct [1875] Down John Tyndall …
- … have a remnant of summer to receive you. Believe me | very truly yours | Emma Darwin. …
- … visit (see n. 2, below). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Thomas Henry Huxley , …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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 Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe 14 January [1875]
Summary
Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 14 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814G |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Innes, J. B. …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875] …
- … M. Stecher collection) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 24 Dec [1875] John Brodie Innes …
- … good wish to your trio, very truly yours | Emma Darwin P.S. As a proof that nobody need …
- … Darwins at Down House on 5 March 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), Emma changed her …
- … were ‘not nice enough’ (see letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, [6 March 1876] (DAR …
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 24 June [1874] and n. …
- … he returned home on 28 March 1876 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Innes and his wife, …
To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … by the reference to CD’s visit to London (see n. 2, below). CD, Emma Darwin , and …
- … 10 to 20 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … CD and Emma Darwin visited Huxley on …
- … Sunday 12 December 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Elizabeth Darwin stayed with Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from …
To H. E. Litchfield 4 January [1875]
Summary
Describes his views on vivisection. Cannot sign petition of F. P. Cobbe, with its attack on Rudolf Virchow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 4 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9799 |
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 …
To C. E. Norton 7 October 1875
Summary
Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 7 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1875]
Summary
Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10293 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
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 |
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 July 1875
Summary
Discusses corrections to Variation.
Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 23–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10046 |
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Walpole, D. F. | (4) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (4) |
Burgers, T. F. | (1) |
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Carus, J. V. | (1) |
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Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Dresser, H. E. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Horner, K. M. | (1) |
Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
John Murray | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Llewelyn, T. M. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
Norton, C. E. | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Stanley, E. H. | (1) |
Story-Maskelyne, T. M. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Whitney, W. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
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