From G. H. Darwin [6 December 1881]
Summary
Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13532 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 February [1866]
Summary
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B40–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5010 |
From G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin [before 24 November 1873]
Summary
Describes a seance attended by George Darwin and Myers.
| Author: | James William Colvile |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 24 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9157F |
From W. H. Scott 13 November 1875
Summary
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
| Author: | William Henry Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10259 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1880]
Summary
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12514 |
To W. M. Hacon 11 September 1881
Summary
Wishes to draw up a new will; outlines the changes to be made in the provisions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13330 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin had died on 26 August 1881; he had bequeathed half his personal estate and all his real property to CD (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881 ). For the details of the marriage settlement between Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer , see Correspondence vol. 27, letter from W. M. Hacon, 7 November 1879 . For the codicil to CD’s will, see the letter from W. E. …
To W. E. Darwin 10 January [1879]
Summary
G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11824 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, 9 January 1879 . Anthony Rich had decided to leave his property in the City of London to CD (see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from Anthony Rich, 7 December 1878 ). George Howard Darwin sent William an account of his visit to Worthing, a town on the coast of Sussex, on 8 and 9 January ( letter from G. H. Darwin to W. E. …
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: 1 hit
- … Darwin in the Monthly Magazine (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 May 1879 and n. 1). CD travelled to Bassett, Southampton, the home of Sara and William Erasmus Darwin , on 8 May 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Erasmus Darwin had published A plan for the conduct of female education in boarding schools after setting up a school for his two illegitimate daughters, Susanna Parker and Mary Parker , to run ( E. …
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: 1 hit
- … G. H. Darwin, 15 October 1881 . The Friday before 15 October was 14 October. Following the death of Erasmus Alvey Darwin , George was organising the sale by auction of the contents of Erasmus’s former home at 6 Queen Anne Street, London. Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield were travelling in Italy ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
To W. E. Darwin 10 [December 1856]
Summary
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 10 [Dec 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2019 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin . Emma Darwin noted in her diary that after his school-term ended, George Howard Darwin went directly to the home of Hensleigh and Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood in Cumberland Terrace, London. Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood was the son of Fanny and Hensleigh Wedgwood and a fellow student of William Erasmus Darwin’s at Rugby. Henry Hemmings , a servant of the recently deceased Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, was probably on his way to Barlaston (see letter to G. H. Darwin and W. E. …
To G. H. Darwin 15 May [1879]
Summary
Sends some queries connected with his writing of the biographical preface to Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12054 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s poetry, including the lines: ‘In sweet tetrandryan, monogynian strains / Pant for a pystill in botanic pains’ ( [Mathias] 1794–7 , 1: 15). The work was first published between 1794 and 1797, and went through many editions. The ‘public’ library was Cambridge University Library (see letter to G. H. Darwin, 5 May [1879] and n. 2). The fourth edition of The botanic garden was published in a cheaper octavo format in 1799 ( E. …
From G. H. Darwin 5 December 1874
Summary
Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.
Describes other work in progress.
Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9743 |
To G. J. Romanes 21 September [1878]
Summary
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11699 |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, 17 November 1881 ). George’s paper ‘On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains’ ( G. H. Darwin 1881b ) had been read at the Royal Society of London on 16 June 1881. George Gabriel Stokes was secretary of the Royal Society. George left for Jamaica on 2 February 1882 (see letter from W. E. …
From G. H. Darwin 8 December 1868
Summary
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6495 |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]
Summary
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2–3 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3678 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin arrived in Southampton on a visit to William on 2 August 1862 (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] and n. 3). There are camera lucida drawings of the two sets of pollen from each of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria , all with August 1862 dates, in DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 27–32 bis. William enclosed the first of these with the letter from W. E. …
From W. E. Darwin [27 February 1882]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin were the executors of Erasmus Alvey Darwin ’s will. Erasmus had died on 26 August 1881; he bequeathed half of his personal estate and all his real property to CD (see Correspondence vol. 29, letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881 ). On the Lincoln land, see this volume, letter from W. E. …
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
To H. E. Litchfield 2 December [1871]
Summary
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8089 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Francis Darwin [21 November 1878]
Summary
Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin attended a concert at Bryanston Square in London on 19 November 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); CD and Emma were staying with Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma Litchfield at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 19 to 27 November (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD visited George John Romanes (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 [November 1878] ). On 9 December 1878, Francis Darwin gave a lecture at the London Institution titled ‘Self-defence among plants’; the Litchfields attended ( Royal Cornwall Gazette , 20 December 1878, p. 2; Emma Darwin to H. E. …
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