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From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 June 1879

Summary

Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  30 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12128F

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  • … From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin   30 June 1879 …
  • Darwin, Francis Wedgwood, Emma
  • … Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
  • … DAR 274.1: 49 Francis Darwin 30 June 1879 Emma
  • … Darwin visited Norway in August 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The American has …
  • … they returned to Down on 18 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Villars-sur-Ollon …

To Francis Darwin   2 July [1879]

Summary

FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  2 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12132

Matches: 3 hits

  • … between this letter and the letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 . …
  • … See letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 and n. 4. CD and Francis had …
  • Darwin, [before 26 June 1879] and n. 3). The results Francis described in his letter to Emma

From Francis Darwin   [6 July 1879]

Summary

Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12296F

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  • … Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has …
  • … hotel around 10 July 1879 (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [10 July 1879] (DAR …

To Francis Darwin   12 July [1879]

Summary

Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.

Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.

Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  12 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12152

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  • … District from 2 to 27 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD jokingly alludes to …
  • … Erasmus Alvey Darwin , and Emma Darwin . The Darwins stayed at …
  • … CD’s biographical sketch for Erasmus Darwin ; among them were Henrietta Emma Litchfield , …

To Francis Darwin   [2 August 1879]

Summary

Tells arrangements for their journey to Coniston.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [2 Aug 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12179

Matches: 2 hits

  • … work-related issues) in his letter to Emma Darwin of 30 June 1879 . Francis’s son, Bernard …
  • … 1879, before travelling to Coniston ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); 2 August 1879 was a …

From Francis Darwin   3 March [1879]

Summary

Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11913F

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  • … having left Down on 4 February 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He arrived back at …
  • … G. H. Darwin, 3 March 1879 ; letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [12 March 1879] (DAR …

To Francis Darwin   [4 February – 8 March 1879]

Summary

Requests some seeds.

Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11815

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  • … left for Algiers on 4 February 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)) and departed from …
  • … had visited Down in 1878 (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, 17 September [1878] ( …

To Francis Darwin   4 July [1879]

Summary

CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.

Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  4 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 271.4: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12134A

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  • … visited Down from 19 to 21 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had already …
  • Darwin . Francis returned to England at the beginning of August 1879; his sister Henrietta Emma

To Francis Darwin   2 July [1879]

Summary

Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  2 July [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12133

Matches: 1 hit

  • … apheliotropic (see letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 ). For CD’s use …

To Francis Darwin   [before 25 February 1879]

Summary

CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?

Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].

Sends his love to George.

Bernard gets more charming every day.

CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [before 25 Feb 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 271.4: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11883A

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  • … Darwin in Algiers on 4 February 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis’s son, …

From Francis Darwin   [before 31 July 1879]

Summary

Discusses Müller-Thurgau’s work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 31 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12177F

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  • … Lake District from 2 to 27 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The ‘French life’ …
  • … in the Lake District on 4 August 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the Sunday before …

From Francis Darwin   4 July 1879

Summary

Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.

FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 209.3: 334
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12134

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  • … 1879] ). See letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 and n. 5. Francis was …

From Francis Darwin   [before 26 June 1879]

Summary

Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 26 June 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 55
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12126F

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  • … The Darwins left Down on 26 June 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR242)). Francis’s request …

From Francis Darwin   [after 16 June 1879]

Summary

Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs’ laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 16 June 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12111F

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  • … returned to Down on 18 July 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had evidently …

To Francis Darwin   16 June [1879]

Summary

Has given his reasons for believing that twisting of stem is related to circumnutation in Climbing plants.

Tells results of experiments on movement of cotyledons and radicles.

Is getting aerial heliotropic roots from Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  16 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 55
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12111

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  • … Mary Elizabeth Atkin , the next day ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had probably …

From Francis Darwin   29 May 1879

Summary

Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 May 1879
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12067F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … identified. None of the letters from Emma Darwin , Elizabeth Darwin , or George Howard …

From Francis Darwin   [c. 25 February 1879]

Summary

Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 25 Feb 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11883F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Darwin . Henrietta Emma Litchfield’s letter has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. …

To Francis Darwin   24 June [1879]

Summary

Movement in plants: Philodendron and Dendrobium.

Will go to London on Thursday to receive Baly Medal. Laura Forster has offered them her house in London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  24 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 271.4: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12117A

Matches: 1 hit

  • Emma Litchfield ; her house was West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, near Dorking, Surrey. Ubba was a pet name of CD’s grandson, Bernard Darwin . …

To the Darwin children   21 February 1879

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Summary

Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  21 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 153
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11896

Matches: 3 hits

  • … George Howard Darwin Horace Darwin Leonard Darwin William Erasmus Darwin Henrietta Emma
  • Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … CD’s daughters were Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Elizabeth Darwin ; his sons were William …