To H. E. Litchfield 11 [December 1879]
Summary
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 11 [Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12353 |
From Emma Nixon 10 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
| Author: | Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 189–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12348 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Gisborne, Emma Nixon, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 99: 189–90 Emma Gisborne/Emma Nixon Derby 10 Dec 1879 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin is sinking Tapping has given great relief—but her days on Earth cannot now be many— She is most patient & resigned to the Will of her Heavenly Father. I hope your health does not suffer from our present most severe weather? Again thanking you for your kind remembrance of me, and with kind regards | Believe me | Yours sincerely | Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
From R. W. Dixon [after 20 December 1879]
Summary
Three letters from Erasmus Darwin to Dixon’s great-grandfather, transcribed by Dixon. Enclosure to a missing letter.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368F |
From J. W. Judd 9 December 1879
Summary
Sorry he was out when CD came to visit.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12347 |
From J. F. Moulton 10 December 1879
Summary
At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.
| Author: | John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12350 |
From W. E. Darwin [8 December 1879]
Summary
Returns Guthrie. Comments at length on Guthrie’s critique of Spencer.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12346F |
From A. G. Butler 13 December 1879
Summary
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 391 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12355 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
| Gisborne, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
