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To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Summary
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] and 14 [October 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). CD later discussed this experiment in ‘Specific difference in Primula ’ , pp. 451–4. Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Horace Darwin . Miss Pugh had been governess to the Darwin children from January 1857 …
To W. E. Darwin 21 [July 1857]
Summary
Writes of WED’s recent excursion to Manchester and his future educational plans.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 21 [July 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2097 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, [12 September 1847] ). Of the Gainsborough portraits at Dulwich, the most famous was the double portrait of Elizabeth Ann and Maria Linley . Knole House, near Sevenoaks, Kent. Robert Bickersteth Mayor was William’s housemaster at Rugby School. Frederick Temple , who had obtained a double first class in mathematics and classics at Oxford and was a fellow of Balliol College, became headmaster of Rugby School on 12 November 1857. …
