To W. E. Darwin 3 June [1859]
Summary
Reports events at Down.
Is busy with proofs [of Origin];
is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 June [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2467 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin 3 June [1859] …
- … 1, letter to J. S. Henslow, 18 July 1833 ). See letter to W. E. Darwin, 7 July [1859] . …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] , for William’s plans for …
- … to W. E. Darwin, 24 [February 1852] ). Emily Catherine Darwin left Down on 2 June 1859 ( …
To W. E. Darwin [23 October – 20 November 1859]
Summary
Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct – 20 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2497 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859] …
- … in the Lake District (see letters to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] and 7 July [1859] ). Emma …
- … Darwin returned to Down on 25 August 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The case involving the family of Henry Tibbats Stainton was reported in The Times , 11 July 1859, p. 10. CD had suggested that Stainton might assist William when he first began to study Lepidoptera (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. E. …
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859] …
- … in mathematics. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] and n. 6. CD stayed at Moor …
- … W. E. Darwin, [3 May 1858] ). John Thurston had introduced the slate billiard-table in 1836 ( EB ). Henry J. Dickinson was a billiard-table manufacturer at 84 Gray’s Inn Lane in London ( Post Office London directory 1859). …
To John Lubbock [25 May 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [25 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3158 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see ibid . , vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 7 July [1859] ). …
- … W. E. Darwin, [25 May 1861] . High Elms, the home of the Lubbock family, was on the far side of Down village, approximately 1 1 2 miles from Down House. William in 1857 was in the sixth form, the top year in Rugby School (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Syms Covington, 22 February 1857 ). William had won a scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1859 ( …
To W. E. Darwin 7 July [1859]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476 |
To W. E. Darwin [14 October 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Ilkley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498 |
Heathcote, M. S. (1818–82)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [after 7 October 1861] (DAR 210.6: 76) National probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 31 January 2014) England & Wales christening records, 1530–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 31 January 2014) Post Office directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire 1859, …
To W. E. Darwin 14 [March 1859]
Summary
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2431 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1859]
Summary
Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2442 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
| Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1859]
Summary
Book finished some two weeks.
Feeling much better at Ilkley.
Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.
Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2504 |
From Joseph Wolstenholme to William Erasmus Darwin [27 March 1863?]
Summary
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
| Author: | Joseph Wolstenholme |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1863?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062F |
From John James Aubertin 27 April 1863
Summary
Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;
describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.
Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4129 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 May [1861]
Summary
Discusses family and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3145 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The two parts of Edward Darwin’s Game preserver’s manual dealt with the prevention of poaching and the ‘destruction of vermin’; in the latter part he stated that, of the traps in common use, ‘the steel trap stands, as it always must, pre-eminent’ ( [E. L. Darwin] 1859 , …
To John Innes 6 September [1860]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.
Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".
Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2907 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
To John Innes 18 July [1860]
Summary
Henrietta’s illness.
CD’s resort to [E. W. Lane’s] water-cure.
Other family news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 18 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2870 |
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| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| Darwin, E. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
