From R. W. Dixon [after 20 December 1879]
Summary
Three letters from Erasmus Darwin to Dixon’s great-grandfather, transcribed by Dixon. Enclosure to a missing letter.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368F |
From R. W. Dixon 20 December 1879
Summary
RWD has read "with deep interest" Erasmus Darwin. He has copies of four letters from Erasmus Darwin to his great-grandfather, Richard Dixon, and he encloses a copy of the most interesting one.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D2, D3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Dixon, R. W. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From R. W. Dixon 20 December 1879 …
- … see King-Hele 1999 , pp. 26, 327. R. W. Dixon had three sons, Harold Goodman Dixon , Hugh …
- … the enclosure to the missing letter from R. W. Dixon, [after 20 December 1878] . Felsted, …
- … Dixon who died I believe 1797. That Richard Dixon was born at Elston abt. the same time as D r . Darwin & on the back of his apprenticeship indentures are the names of W …
From William Hepworth Dixon 16 April 1863
Summary
Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.
| Author: | William Hepworth Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4102 |
Dixon, R. W. (1833–1926)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Dixon 1833–1926 Farmer. Of Wickham Bishops, Essex. Great-grandson of Richard Dixon (bap. 1731 d. 1797). Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/1777/90/1) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 April 2018) England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 April 2018) letter from R. W. Dixon, …
To Richard Owen [before 28 April 1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [before 28 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1357 |
From E. S. Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314 |
From Dyson Lacy [before 13 August 1868]
Summary
Answers to CD’s queries on expression in natives of Queensland, Australia.
[Forwarded by Edward Wilson to CD.]
| Author: | Dyson Lacy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 13 Aug 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6374 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (2) |
| Dixon, W. H. | (1) |
| Galton, E. S. | (1) |
| Lacy, Dyson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dixon, W. H. | (1) |
| Galton, E. S. | (1) |
