From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 8 October 1881
Summary
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13379 |
To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [before 25 June 1859]
Summary
Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.
| Author: | Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer |
| Date: | [before 25 June 1859] |
| Classmark: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2472 |
To William Ogle 16 December [1878]
Summary
Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.
Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11797 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Summary
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … on the waterworks at Brighton ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, [February …
- … Horace and Francis Darwin’s visit to the Roman villa at Chedworth, Gloucestershire, in November 1877. The agent of John Scott (Lord Eldon) and his son have not been identified, although their surname was presumably Hall (see below in the letter). …
From W. C. Marshall 25 September [1878]
Summary
Observations on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10173 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1873]
Summary
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8799 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 March 1880
Summary
Agrees that CD should write to the Times [about Torbitt’s potato experiments].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12527 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … career uncertain ( letter from T. H. Farrer to Horace Darwin, [August–September 1879] ( …
- … Horace Darwin, [August–September 1879] (Down House, EH 88207899)). Ida had visited Down from 2 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), letter …
- … Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [29 September 1879] (DAR 219.9: 211)). See also letter from CD to T. H. Farrer, 27 June [1879] . Farrer’s letter to Horace …
- … Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer had announced their wish to become engaged in June, but T. H. Farrer, Ida’s father, after initially opposing the match or insisting on a delay of a year or two, had stipulated a wait of some months before it was made public, during which time the couple were not to meet ( letter …
To W. D. Fox 29 October [1872]
Summary
Has finished Expression.
His strength fails more and more; needs to rest every six weeks or so.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8585 |
To T. H. Farrer 27 June [1879]
Summary
Wishes to call on THF to discuss the situation with regard to Horace Darwin [who wishes to marry THF’s daughter, Emma Cecilia (Ida)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 27 June [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12125 |
To Camilla Ludwig 26 August [1862]
Summary
Family news; mostly an account of ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick |
| Date: | 26 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3700 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … family in looking after Horace (see the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [27 May …
- … Darwin . The Down surgeon, Stephen Paul Engleheart , was concerned that Horace’s attachment to her might be exacerbating the illness from which he had been suffering. See the letters …
- … letter has not been found. Ludwig, the Darwins’ governess, was on an extended visit to her family in Hamburg, having apparently been sent away in early June, on full pay, in order to separate her from Horace …
- … Darwin children in Bournemouth (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), and letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] and n. 3). CD refers to Emma’s sister, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood . Horace …
From Anton Dohrn 7 June 1873
Summary
News of Naples Zoological Station developments.
His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.
The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.
Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8937 |
From Alfred Wrigley 12 March 1868
Summary
Had hoped that the intention of removing Horace from school had been abandoned and regrets that it has not.
| Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6006 |
To Smith, Elder & Co 17 December [1873]
Summary
Suggests that his Coral reefs be republished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9181 |
To Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse [after 12 March 1868]
Summary
Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse |
| Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 39-40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5962 |
To Frederick Allen’s agent [October 1873]
Summary
Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9079 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
From W. M. Hacon 10 November 1879
Summary
Negotiations on Horace’s marriage-settlement.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12307 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (148) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (19) |
| Darwin, Francis | (18) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (122) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (24) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (20) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (19) |
| Fox, W. D. | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (270) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (38) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (33) |
| Darwin, Francis | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
