To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … E. F. Horsman, Edward Darwin, E. A. Wedgwood, Hensleigh Farrer, T. H. Russell, John …
- … E. Horsman, M.P. , Trinity College, Cambridge. Erasmus Darwin, M.B. , Christ’s College, Cambridge. Charles Darwin, M.A. , Christ’s College, Cambridge. H. Wedgwood, M.A. , late Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Thos. H. Farrer, …
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] (DAR 219.8: 32)). Their engagement was publicly announced on 13 October 1877 ( letter from Elizabeth Darwin to Ida Farrer, …
- … Farrer’s wife. Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood was Effie’s mother. She had been ill since May and had been staying with the Farrers at Abinger Hall since July (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [25 May 1877] (DAR 219.9: 146), and letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …
- … H. Farrer, 23 September 1877 , and by the public announcement of Sara Sedgwick and William Erasmus Darwin’s engagement (see n. 2, below). In 1877, 16 October was a Tuesday. Farrer’s letter has not been found, but he probably wrote to congratulate the Darwins on the engagement of Sara to William and to commiserate on the news of Richard Buckley Litchfield’s recent illness (see letter to H. E. …
To G. J. Romanes 7 April [1875]
Summary
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9916 |
To J. V. Carus 17 June [1875]
Summary
Sends clean sheets of Insectivorous plants. JVC will now be able to judge whether it is worth translating. The book has wearied him and cost much labour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 17 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 143–144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10021 |
To Michael Foster 23 April [1874]
Summary
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425 |
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 |
To W. M. Hacon 8 November [1879]
Summary
Discusses the marriage-settlement for Horace and Ida.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12301 |
From T. H. Farrer 15 December 1870
Summary
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7391 |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1878]
Summary
Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11364 |
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: 1 hit
- … Farrer, 5 September 1877 and n. 1. CD gave an account of Horace and Francis’s findings at Chedworth in Earthworms , pp. 197–9. Fossebridge is the location of an inn near Chedworth. Earlier in the year, Horace had been working on the waterworks at Brighton ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, [February 1877 ? ] (DAR 258: 817)). Leonard Darwin had hurt his knee playing lawn tennis ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
To W. M. Hacon 11 September 1881
Summary
Wishes to draw up a new will; outlines the changes to be made in the provisions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13330 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Farrer’s health. Leonard Darwin . CD and Emma Darwin were visiting Sara and William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 25 May to 8 June 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). James Russell Lowell , the poet, visited on 30 May 1880 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Probably Anne Ashburner , Sara Darwin’s aunt. William and Frances Anna Thomson had lunched with the Darwins on 11 May 1880 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
To Horace Darwin [28 June 1879]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a statement of CD’s finances and estimate of the inheritance his children may expect] for HD and Ida to read; CD very pleased to be able to leave his children comfortably provided for.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | [28 June 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 5, 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12384 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 and n. 1). CD also intended to send the enclosure to his daughter Henrietta Emma Litchfield , and son William Erasmus Darwin . The enclosure is in Emma Darwin’s hand. William’s estimate of CD and Emma Darwin’s property was probably carried out in the context of the forthcoming marriage of his sister, Henrietta, which took place in August 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 24, Supplement, letter from W. E. …
To James Torbitt 6 March [1880]
Summary
P.S. to letter posted that morning. James Caird cannot pledge £75. Erasmus Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood will subscribe. May write letter to the Times. Asks for report on experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12521 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Farrer forwards letter from Mr. Caird, that he finds his agricultural friends are so poor from low rents that they are little inclined to subscribe; and Mr. Caird cannot pledge himself for £75. On the other hand my brother E. A. Darwin of 6 Queen Anne St. will subscribe £25 and my brother-in-law H. …
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … E. Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [18 July 1868] (DAR 245: 296). CD’s notes on bees and Lathyrus maritimus observed at Shanklin have not been found. The specimens that Francis sent were later identified by him as Lathyrus sylvestris , not L. maritimus (see letter from Francis Darwin, [16 or 17 August 1873] ). In L. sylvestris , one side has a more easily accessible nectar passage owing to the bending of the keel. Thomas Henry Farrer …
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