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
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
| 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
Summary
Has sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing].
| 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]
Summary
Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.
| 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
Summary
News of friends and family.
| 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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hothouse in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
