To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 17 [Jan 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12429 |
From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
Summary
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12428 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
To C. E. Norton 25 October 1877
Summary
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11208 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
From W. E. Darwin 16 September 1880
Summary
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 78) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714F |
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- … W. E. Darwin, 10 September [1880] and n. 2. Sara Darwin’s niece, Lily Norton , was visiting from America; Henriette Wild was probably employed as her governess. Le Havre is on the French coast, across the English Channel from Southampton. Adam Sedgwick ( …
- … Sara is pretty well, but a little tired by the two arrivals. Goodbye, dear Father, I hope Mother is well | Your affect son | W. E. Darwin I have just been much amused at reading old Sedgwick’ …
Document type
| letter | (7) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
