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 |
Matches: 7 hits
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- … From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 June 1879 …
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- … Darwin, Francis Wedgwood, Emma …
- … 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 …
From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [30 April 1879]
Summary
Sends some papers on Erasmus Darwin for CD.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12102 |
From Emma Darwin to Nicolai Mengden 8 April 1879
Summary
Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | Dr Mirko Majer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11981 |
From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879]
Summary
ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Sackville-West, M. C. Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. Stanley, M. C. …
- … From Emma Darwin to M. C. Stanley 12 November [1879] …
- … you in any degree— Believe me | my dear Lady Derby | very truly yours | Emma Darwin …
- … Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin 12 Nov [1879] Down Mary Catherine …
- … thing is not done. ’ Stanley’s letter to Emma Darwin, 13 November 1879 , is in the Library …
- … and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ). …
- … Darwin, [9 November 1879] and enclosure). Olmsted had served as head of the US Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War and had created a relief system to distribute medicine and clothing to the Union army ( ANB ). CD and Emma …
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 the Darwin children 21 February 1879
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 10 July 1879
Summary
Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12145 |
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 8 to 21 May 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … them up ( ibid. , p. 88 n. ). CD and Emma Darwin had arrived in Heene, Worthing, on 6 May …
- … Rich ; they had lunch with him on 7 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Rich proposed to …
- … William Erasmus Darwin , on 8 May 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Erasmus Darwin …
- … the sun (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 May 1879 ). CD and Emma stayed at Bassett from …
From J. R. Atkin 7 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
| Author: | James Richard (Dick) Atkin, Baron Atkin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12185 |
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 |
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 |
From E. A. Wheler 17 April 1879
Summary
Relates more family history and anecdotes concerning Dr Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12000 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Elizabeth Darwin : Frances Anne Violetta Darwin , Emma Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin , and …
- … from this paragraph in Erasmus Darwin , pp. 69–70. Emma Sophia Galton was Elizabeth Anne …
- … Emma Nixon’s letter has not been found; Wheler later asked for it to be returned (see letter from E. A. Wheler, 18 April 1879 ). Millicent Pole married John Gisborne in 1792; she was the daughter of Elizabeth Pole , who later became Erasmus Darwin’ …
- … Emma about this, & she perfectly remembers my mother telling us this, & yesterday, on looking into Baroness de Bunsen’s memoirs, which we have just received, in page 68 she mentions M rs . Fielding consulting D r . D for her Daughter, & in page 38 she mentions paying a call at the Priory & being so struck with the beauty of the three Miss Darwins. …
From Anthony Rich 30 May 1879
Summary
Speaks of the delight of having met CD.
Hopes William Darwin may be able to visit Worthing.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.12: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12070 |
From G. H. Darwin [30 November 1879]
Summary
Erasmus thinks CD should give a copy of Erasmus Darwin to Henry Parker.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Nov 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12240 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 October 1879
Summary
Gives up his wish to keep secret the engagement of his daughter to Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12253 |
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 |
To Ernst Haeckel [4 September 1879]
Summary
Confirms details of EH’s visit to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1879] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49b [A 47730]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12218F |
To George Sleigh [before 26 September 1879]
Summary
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sleigh |
| Date: | [before 26 Sept 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12282 |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Galton, E. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
| Darwin, Francis | (10) |
| Galton, E. A. | (6) |
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| Wheler, E. A. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (127) |
| Darwin, Francis | (19) |
| Galton, E. A. | (9) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (8) |
