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From Francis Darwin   14 May 1881

Summary

News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13155F

Matches: 3 hits

  • … The letters to Francis from Elizabeth Darwin and Emma Darwin have not been found. …
  • … Dandy is mentioned in a letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [13 April 1868] (DAR …
  • … Dubs: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, who had stayed behind with Emma and CD at Down …

From Francis Darwin   19 [May 1881]

Summary

Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [May 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13166F

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  • … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, 30 June 1879 ). Julius …

From Francis Darwin   23 [May 1881]

Summary

Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 [May 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13170F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Wedgwood families were Unitarians; for Emma Darwin ’s views on religion, see Keynes 2001 , …

From Francis Darwin   [25 July 1881]

Summary

Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 July 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13252F

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  • … in 1881, arriving home on 1 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In 1881, the Monday …

From Francis Darwin   16 July 1881

Summary

Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13245F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … returned from Germany on 1 August 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Presumably CD had …

To Francis Darwin   16 and 17 May 1881

Summary

Some papers have arrived for FD.

Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.

Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  16 and 17 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13159

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  • … was a pet name for Francis’s son Bernard Darwin . Emma Darwin visited Ellen Harriet Tollet …
  • … on 17 May 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a …
  • … They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was …
  • … sinking has not been identified. Augusta Dickson , Emma Darwin 's maid, had been taken ill …
  • … at the beginning of May ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3 May 1881] ; DAR …

To Francis Darwin   25 May [1881]

Summary

Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 May [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13174

Matches: 3 hits

  • … regularly sent paper soldiers to Bernard. The postscript was written by Emma Darwin . …
  • … was written between the lines by Emma Darwin . See letter from Francis Darwin, 23 [May …
  • … nurse, Pauline Badel ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [12 September 1879] , …

To Francis Darwin   17 October 1881

Summary

Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".

Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  17 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13411

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  • … fever in the village (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
  • … deceased wife’s family (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] (DAR …
  • … 17 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son, was …
  • … Laslett was a local builder. Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood visited the Darwins from 6 to …

To Francis Darwin   [c. 6 June 1881]

Summary

Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].

Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [c. 6 June 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13194

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  • … in the Lake District from 3 June to 4 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • Emma Darwin recorded that 6 and 7 June 1881 were both very cold, with a storm on 7 June ( …

To Francis Darwin   28 June [1881]

Summary

Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.

Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  28 June [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13225

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  • … was his aunt. In her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin recorded, ‘Mrs Ruck went by boat’, on 28 …
  • … the Lake District from 3 June to 4 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). No letter from …

To Francis Darwin   8 July 1881

Summary

Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.

Is going over revises of Earthworms.

Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  8 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13237

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  • … after five weeks’ holiday on 5 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Great Northern …
  • … Straßburg (Strasbourg) on 1 August 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The Darwins were …

To Francis Darwin   27 May 1881

Summary

Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].

Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  27 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13179

Matches: 3 hits

  • … University Press). Healey, Edna. 2001. Emma Darwin: the inspirational wife of a genius. …
  • … District from 2 June to 5 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis often sent …
  • Emma Litchfield . Richter, a noted conductor, was in London for the Richter Concerts, a series started by Franke ( Musical World 58 (1880): 279). Richter could play on every musical instrument except the harp, as well as sing ( Grove 2002 ). Leonard Darwin

To Francis Darwin   4 [June 1881]

Summary

Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  4 [June 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13193

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  • … District from 3 June to 4 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin 's diary (DAR 242)). CD and Francis were …
  • … 25 August 1879 ). Henrietta Emma Litchfield , Elizabeth Darwin , and Leonard Darwin were …

To Francis Darwin   22–3 May 1881

Summary

Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.

Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.

Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  22–3 May 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 75
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13170

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  • … District from 2 June to 5 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See Earthworms , pp. …

To Francis Darwin   [16 June 1881]

Summary

Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [16 June 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 98v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13206

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Payne has not been found. According to Emma Darwin ’s diary (DAR 242), George arrived at …

To Francis Darwin   [18 December 1881]

Summary

Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [18 Dec 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13548

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  • … Huxley on Sunday 18 December 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Huxley had been …

To Francis Darwin   [after 27 May 1881]

Summary

Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].

Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [after 27 May 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13181

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Richter 1882 , p. 498). Bernard Darwin and Henrietta Emma Litchfield . CD had sent Francis …

To Francis Darwin   28 [October 1881]

Summary

Earthworms is selling well.

Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.

Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.

S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  28 [Oct 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13440

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  • … deceased wife’s family ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [9 October 1881] ( …

To the Darwin children   3 January 1881

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Summary

About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

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:  3 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12972

Matches: 3 hits

  • … George Howard Darwin Horace Darwin Leonard Darwin William Erasmus Darwin Henrietta Emma
  • Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … Darwin , Leonard Darwin , Horace Darwin , and Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Each daughter …

To the Darwin children   16 September 1881

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Summary

A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

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:  16 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 183
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13340

Matches: 3 hits

  • … George Howard Darwin Horace Darwin Leonard Darwin William Erasmus Darwin Henrietta Emma
  • Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … and his three surviving daughters, Emma Darwin , Elizabeth Wedgwood , and Charlotte …
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