To Leonard Darwin 11 July [1872]
Summary
CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8404 |
To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Summary
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 11 October 1881
Summary
More on proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13393 |
From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 14 October 1881
Summary
Further details on sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13400 |
To Leonard Darwin 26 July [1872]
Summary
CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8435 |
From Leonard Darwin 12 October [1881]
Summary
Will be home on Saturday.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13395 |
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
To D. F. Nevill 19 and 21 February [1878]
Summary
Will call on addressee when he is next in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 19 and 21 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 57940 f. 106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9863F |
From Leonard Darwin [before 12 July] 1879
Summary
Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 12 July] 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B7–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12160 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 July 1862
Summary
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3657 |
To G. S. Ffinden 11 November 1879
Summary
Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12308 |
From George Varenne Reed 12 January 1863
Summary
Sorry CD considers Horace Darwin unfit for school.
| Author: | George Varenne Reed |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3912 |
From Leslie Stephen 12 January [1881]
Summary
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
| Author: | Leslie Stephen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B68–71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13008 |
From J. J. Aubertin 1 March 1871
Summary
Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;
reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7526 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 1 September [1875?]
Summary
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10146 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 June 1870
Summary
Tells of his health and family matters.
Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.
Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7246 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [24 September – 10 October 1868]
Summary
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6339 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Leonard Darwin’s admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (see n. 2, below), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. A. Darwin, [11 …
- … Leonard’s winning a place at Woolwich, see the letter to Horace Darwin, 26 [July 1868] and n. 2. An abstract of Sylvester’s paper ‘On the successive involutes to a circle’ was published in Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Norwich , Miscellaneous communications to the sections, pp. 10–11. …
From W. E. Darwin 6 January 1881
Summary
Passes on legal advice.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980F |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (11) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
