To Richard Frean 22 February 1863
Summary
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Frean |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4005 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 3 July [1862] . In his letter to Leonard Darwin of November 1882 (DAR 144: 298), Frean …
- … Leonard Darwin in 1882 for possible inclusion in Francis Darwin’s edition of CD’s letters ( …
- … Leonard Darwin , November 1882, in DAR 144: 298). CD’s interest in the development of mammary glands was stimulated by George Maw’s review of Origin , which, in criticising the theory of natural selection, raised the question: ‘How, for example, could mammiferous nutrition have been perfected by short stages? ’ ( [Maw] 1861 , p. 7596). In attempting to answer this point, CD referred Maw to Jeffries Wyman’s researches on gestation in Batrachians ( Wyman 1859 ), which showed the ‘ possibility of such a transition’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
From W. E. Darwin 23 March 1882
Summary
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13734F |
To ? 4 May [1875]
Summary
Sends photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9970 |
To C. V. Riley 25 June [1875]
Summary
Is staying at a friend’s [T. H. Farrer’s] house for rest until after 6 July, so cannot see CVR at Down.
Hopes he thanked CVR for the last Report [one of CVR’s Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri (1868–76)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 25 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (1 January 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10030F |
To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To Anthony Rich 4 February 1882
Summary
Exchanges news on health.
Thanks AR for his worm observations.
George Darwin’s work is attracting attention; he intends to try for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge. Adds other news of George and of CD’s sons Leonard and William.
CD has finished his microscopic work and has only to write up two papers for the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anthony Rich |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A44–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13659 |
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a founder member of the Sunday Tramps, a society for vigorous rural walking within convenient railway distance from London ( ODNB s.v. Sunday Tramps). They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was Francis’s son; Francis’s letter …
From J. D. Hooker [8 November 1873]
Summary
Has had a week’s cessation of Nepenthes work.
Had to get out a paper for the Linnean Society on Thursday.
Has tried Mimosa albida in hothouse and found it wonderfully sensitive.
A military report from India praises his travel book.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 184–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9150 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1873] and n. 5. Hooker’s Himalayan journals ( J. D. Hooker 1854 ) was praised in John Cox Gawler’s Sikkim, with hints on mountain and jungle warfare ( Gawler 1873 , p. 3). Leonard Darwin was in Royal Engineers. Gawler was keeper of the crown jewels until his death in 1882. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Frean, Richard | (1) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Frean, Richard | (1) |
