From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881]
Summary
Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.
The text on EAD’s gravestone.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.3: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13400F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Darwin, G. H. …
- … From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881] …
- … DAR 210.3: 24 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [14 Oct 1881] George Howard Darwin …
- … from 20 to 27 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The Irish politician Charles …
- … were travelling in Italy ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 October [1881] ( …
- … Darwin , George was organising the sale by auction of the contents of Erasmus’s former home at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. Henrietta Emma …
- … Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . The particular edition of John Milton ’s works has not been identified. Elizabeth Pearce . An entry in CD’s Account book–cash accounts (Down House MS) records a payment of £16 11 s. 3 d. to ‘Taylors removing Furniture’ on 18 November 1881; the firm has not been further identified. No earlier correspondence about the inscription for Erasmus Alvey’s gravestone has been found, but see the letter from G. H. Darwin, …
To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
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 |
To the Darwin children 16 September 1881
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 |
To the Darwin children 20 December 1881
Summary
Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".
| 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: | 20 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR (CD library—Index Kewensis tom. 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13570 |
To H. E. Litchfield 4 January 1881
Summary
Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12978 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … prodromi nunc continuatio nunc revisio . 9 vols. Paris: G. Masson. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … Press. 1904. Healey, Edna. 2001. Emma Darwin: the inspirational wife of a genius. London: …
- … see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma Darwin (then Wedgwood) and her sister Frances had …
- … between November 1826 and June 1827 ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 1: 245–74; Healey 2001 , p. …
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield [11 June 1881]
Summary
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
| Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [11 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12960 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Laura Mary Forster unstated [11 June 1881] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … Darwin at Southampton. Caverswall Castle in Staffordshire was rented by Godfrey Wedgwood from 1878 ( Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , pp. 311–13). Probably John Stafford Northcote ; he married Hilda Cardew Farrar on 14 June 1881 at St Margaret’s, Westminster, London ( Belfast Newsletter , 17 June 1881). Northcote’s mother, Cecilia Frances Northcote , was Thomas Henry Farrer’s sister. Frances Emma …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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 …
From R. B. and H. E. Litchfield 5 January [1881]
Summary
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.
| Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B88–90, B106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12979 |
To C. E. Norton 1 June 1881
Summary
No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.
Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].
Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 1 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13187 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … House MS), p. 152. The letters from Emma Darwin and from Sara Darwin have not been found. …
- … authorising the purchase of shares for Emma Darwin’s trust; her trustees were Erasmus …
- … III , who had died on 11 March 1880 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). William was Josiah’s …
- … the letter from W. E. Darwin, 3 February [1881] and nn. 3 and 4. Emma Darwin , in a letter …
- … Darwin , 7 March 1881 (DAR 251: 1002) mentioned that William had been kicked off his horse, hitting his head, but that he was ‘not the least stunned’. In a letter of 16 March 1881 (DAR 210.3: 5), Emma …
From G. H. Darwin 15 October 1881
Summary
Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13401 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of the inscription, see the letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [14 October 1881] . …
- … Queen Anne Street, London, was Erasmus’s former home. See letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. …
- … 14 October 1881] . See letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [14 October 1881] and n. …
- … difficulty finding work ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 2 October [1881] ( …
From Anthony Rich 13 June 1881
Summary
The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13202 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Heene, Worthing, on 8 September 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). They stayed at the …
- … while William arrived on 18 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George had travelled to …
- … of March ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 4 February [1881] ; letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. …
- … Darwin, 23 March 1881 (DAR 210.3: 6); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George had visited …
- … at Patterdale, from 3 June to 4 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Victor Marshall ’s …
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 November 1881
Summary
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497F |
To G. H. Darwin 8 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.
Describes events at Patterdale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13197 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the Lake District from 3 June to 4 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The letter from …
- … Erasmus Darwin came on 18 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). There is no record of a …
- … Buckley Litchfield ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Pooley Bridge is a village at the …
- … including Leonard , Horace , and Elizabeth Darwin , and Henrietta Emma and Richard …
To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Emma Darwin and CD travelled to London on Thursday 24 February; they stayed there until 3 …
- … at Down on 17 February ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, 17 February 1881 (DAR …
- … 258)). She probably left on 22 February. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Shaen …
- … to John Higgins has not been found. Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Henrietta Emma Litchfield . …
- … Emma also incorrectly recorded that Francis Galton and William Cecil Marshall came to dinner on Saturday 12 February instead of Saturday 19 February. Both Galton and Marshall were still at Down on 20 February; Louisa Jane Galton , Galton’s wife, did not visit owing to a bilious attack ( letter from Elizabeth Darwin …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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 …
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1881]
Summary
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141G |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 13 March 1881] and n. 4; letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 16 March 1881 (DAR …
- … and Horace Darwin left Down on 19 April for a visit to Abinger ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [16 April 1881] (DAR 210.3: 8)). Ida was …
- … not to visit again (see letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 31 January 1881 (DAR …
From G. H. Darwin [18 October 1881]
Summary
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13412 |
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