From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]
Summary
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 90.1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3671 |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
| Author: | Charles Pritchard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
To W. D. Fox 24 [March 1859]
Summary
Is correcting chapters [of Origin] for press.
Health has been wretched of late.
He values fame to a certain extent, but "if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2436 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862
Summary
Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3683 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and nn. 6 and 7. CD refers to Francis and …
- … Darwin has not been found. Susan Elizabeth Darwin visited William in Southampton on 2 and 3 August, bringing Francis and George Howard Darwin with her (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] ). See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [ …
To W. E. Darwin [31 May 1862]
Summary
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3580 |
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [18 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To W. E. Darwin 18 June 1880
Summary
Wants WED to collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12639 |
From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
To Lawson Tait 16 July [1880]
Summary
Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 16 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12659 |
From W. E. Darwin 29 June [1866]
Summary
Sends flowers of the differing kinds [of Rhamnus?] with observations.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 June [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A78–9, A47–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5134 |
From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin ’s nurse until 1851, would arrive towards the end of Francis and George’s stay (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [July 1862? ] (DAR 219.1: 47)). In a letter …
- … Darwin, 1 August 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). William’s horse had fallen when he was out collecting plants (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ). Francis and George Howard Darwin were going to stay with William in Southampton; they were due to arrive on 1 August (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 February [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13036 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840F |
To W. E. Darwin 6 October [1858]
Summary
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2334 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 February [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13042 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin , who lived at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and to Francis and George Howard Darwin , who, according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), went to London on 10 January 1861, returning to Down on 12 January. George underwent extensive dental treatment between December 1860 and February 1861 (see letter from G. H. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [9 December 1860] (DAR 251: 2226), letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (16) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
