To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 2 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 2 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … My Dear friend I think Erasmus is quite good humered to day as he was yesterday and they …
- … affectionate pug’; see this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 12 January 1822 . …
- … The friend has not been identified. …
- … See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. …
- … volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 and n. 2. CD had developed an …
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 3 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 3 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista. …
- … The friend has not been identified. …
- … this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. ‘Monseur Beodoes’ …
- … physician Thomas Beddoes , had been a close friend of the Wedgwood and Darwin families (B. …
- … January the 3 1822 My dear friend I hope you like that inquisitive man Monseur Beodoes, …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 4 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 4 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … immediately after the letter to Dear Friend, 4 January 1822 (this volume, Supplement), it …
- … The friend has not been identified. …
- … this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to his …
- … and this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1). Richard or …
- … My Dear friend you must know that after my Georgraphy, she said I should go down to ask …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 4 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 4 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … March 1826] ). Possibly Clare Leighton , a friend of the family (see Correspondence vol. …
- … The friend has not been identified. …
- … this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to his …
- … My Dear friend, You must known that I am very sorry about shakespeare when Maryane, told …
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 12 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271.1.1: 6v Charles Robert Darwin 12 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … The friend has not been identified. …
- … this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to the …
- … directory for Shropshire ). The Leightons were family friends of the Darwins (see this …
- … volume, Supplement, first letter to Dear Friend, 4 January 1822 and n. 4). CD probably …
- … My Dear friend I hope you had a pleasant ride yesterday on Domben I had a very pleasant …
- … and philanthropist Richard Reynolds , a friend of CD’s grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood I ( …
- … very pretty but I do not know she was a friend of Mariane and Caroline he[r] mothe[r] is …
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Friend …
- … To Dear Friend 1 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 1 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January …
- … January 1 st . 1822 My Dear friend I think it is a most abominable thing, the minute …
- … style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January …
- … this volume, Supplement, letters to Dear Friend, 2 January 1822 , n. 3, 12 January 1822 , …
Friends’ biographical catalogue: Biographical catalogue: being an account of the lives of Friends and others whose portraits are in the London Friends’ institute. London: Friends’ institute. 1888
To Friend Lewin 16 April [1872]
Summary
Suggests FL and Dr Maudsley come to Down via Chislehurst.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend Lewin |
Date: | 16 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden, Manuscripts |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8289 |
From Edward Wilson 8 November 1867
Author: | Edward Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5672 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing]. …
- … from Australia. The enclosure has not been found. Wilson’s friend has not been identified. …
- … Wilson’s other two friends were probably Robert Brough Smyth of Melbourne and Dyson Lacy …
- … questions in train, sending one list to a friend in Melbourne, one to Queensland, & one …
- … to South Australia My South Australian friend writes me to the effect enclosed, by which …
- … I
〉 think my Melbourne & Queensland friends will be equally interested in these enquiries … - … vol.15, Appendix IV) and sent them to friends in Australia, where he had lived from 1842. …
To T. H. Huxley 23 April 1873
Summary
Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a holiday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 295) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8872 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … of one another. My dear Huxley | Your affectionate friend | Charles Darwin …
- … Informs THH that 18 friends have given him a fund of £2100 to enable him to take a …
- … April 1873] and n. 2. Several of Huxley’s friends met on 8 April 1873 to discuss the plan …
- … Huxley I have been asked by some of your friends (eighteen in number) to inform you that …
- … you that we are all your warm personal friends, & that there is not a stranger or mere …
- … our plan occurred to several of your friends at nearly the same time & quite independently …
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1889. The friend of man, and his friends, the poets. London: George Bell & Sons.
From E. F. Lubbock [before 7 April 1873]
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8833 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley? ] to accept a gift. …
- … it ought to be quietly placed before our friend that not only for his own sake, or for …
- … Spottiswoode , and Thomas Archer Hirst were friends of Thomas Henry Huxley . Huxley had …
- … in contractor’s bills. A number of Huxley’s friends were hoping to raise a subscription to …
- … not feel sufficiently intimate with our friend to propose anything, M r . Hirst would do …
- … but I think M r . Hirst is a nearer friend. Of course, I can answer for John in other …
Gurney, Samuel (1816–82)
Matches: 5 hits
- … London: Friends’ institute. 1888 Modern English biography : Modern English biography, …
- … Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Friends’ biographical catalogue Modern English …
- … biography Stenton 1976 . Bibliography Friends’ biographical catalogue : Biographical …
- … catalogue: being an account of the lives of Friends and others whose portraits …
- … are in the London Friends’ institute. …
From Henry Reeks 12 June 1871
Summary
A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.
Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7816 |
From Caroline Darwin 28 March 1836
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 97 (ser. 2): 32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-300 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … News of friends and family. …
- … Nina inclusive— We saw one of your friends a few days ago who made many enquiries—M r . …
- … I dont think you will find any of your friends love you less from their separation from …
- … you & your Captain had continued such good friends through your long voyage & M r . Owen …
White, Maude Valérie. 1914. Friends and memories. London: Edward Arnold.
Matches: 1 hit
- … White, Maude Valérie. 1914. Friends and memories. London: Edward Arnold. M501.c.90.56 1 …
Taylor, Agnes (fl. 1870s–1880s)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Agnes Taylor fl . 1870s–1880s Friend of Emily Beke. 25,30 …
From T. H. Huxley 24 April 1873
Summary
Is overwhelmed by generosity of his friends. Admits he felt morally beaten and without energy for first time in his life. Someday wants the names of the friends.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 62–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8873 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Is overwhelmed by generosity of his friends. Admits he felt morally beaten and without …
- … energy for first time in his life. Someday wants the names of the friends. …
- … may know what manner of man their father’s friend was & why he loved him Ever yours | T. …
- … in wondering what I have done to make my friends care so tenderly & thoughtfully for my …
- … I accept the splendid gift you & my other friends offer, frankly and in the spirit of the …
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Natural selections: a longer read in Commentary
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Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
Matches: 4 hits
- … discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton Hooker had been …
- … wrote a rather reflective letter to his former professor and friend, John Stevens Henslow, musing …
- … evidently did not satisfy Darwin, who hired his old school friend John Price to correct the work …
- … finally appear. It was no doubt a great relief to tell his friend Thomas Henry Huxley in early …
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Insectivorous plants
Summary
Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of the hothouses and some of the tropical plants of his friend and neighbour George Henry Turnbull, …
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Casting about: Darwin on worms
Summary
Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
Matches: 1 hits
- … viewed with suspicion. They were first championed as the friend of gardeners and farmers by the …
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Matches: 1 hits
- … discussed in the first entry and attended by Henrietta’s friend and relative Emily Caroline (Lena) …
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Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin’s Cambridge mentor, John Stevens Henslow, and his friend and cousin William Darwin Fox were …
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The evolution of honeycomb
Summary
Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of the comb and, having been lent a glass hive by a friend, did the same himself; he also asked …
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Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
Matches: 1 hits
- … notebook inscribed with the initials of CD’s Cambridge friend Albert Way. [2] Collected …