From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Summary
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
Matches: 4 hits
From John and Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870]
| Author: | John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 23 June 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 168v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7240F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Pender, Emma Darwin, C. R. …
- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Denison/Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870] Charles Robert Darwin Pender, John Denison, Emma …
- … Edward VII) at a Royal Society of London soirée on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: …
- … 184–5; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The party at the Penders’ London house was to …
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870]
Summary
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7124 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Henrietta Emma Darwin [8 February 1870] …
- … 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down [8 Feb 1870] Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
- … established by the relationship between this letter and a letter from Emma Darwin to H. …
- … England in January 1870 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [18 January 1870] ( …
- … E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] (DAR 219.9: 72), in which Emma says she is enclosing a …
From H. E. Darwin [after 8 February 1870]
Summary
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 February 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 33b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112F |
To H. E. Darwin [March] 1870
Summary
Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [Mar] 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7123 |
From H. E. Darwin [30 March 1870]
Summary
Describes crying in an infant.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7153 |
To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … There is no reference to illness in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). Cobbe had published a …
- … £1. – | I am, Sir, yours &c. | Charles Darwin | Down, Beckenham, Kent. Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that CD thought the publication of the letter ‘unjustifiable’ and …
- … in this form without his consent ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 302). The original article did …
From Mary Susan Mostyn Owen 2 February [1870]
Summary
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
| Author: | Mary Susan Parker; Mary Susan Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7094 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]
Summary
Wishes to visit Down.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7302 |
To H. B. Jones 3 August [1870]
Summary
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293A |
From Adam Sedgwick 30 May 1870
Summary
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
| Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
To W. D. Fox 18 February [1870]
Summary
Invites WDF to visit.
Describes activities of his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7113 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
From George Cupples 14 November 1870
Summary
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7369 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Summary
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From Federico Delpino 20 May 1870
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7196 |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1870s?] |
| Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 30 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Cupples, George | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (4) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
