To Charles Wicksted 13 February [1844?]
Summary
Inquires about the habits of a litter of foxhounds whose sire was particularly good at recovering the scent in paths or roads.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wicksted |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1844?] |
| Classmark: | George Clive (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-735A |
Questions for Mr Wynne [February–July 1838]
Summary
Questions on breeding and habits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | [–] Wynne |
| Date: | [Feb–July 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399 |
From Emma Wedgwood [29 December 1838]
Summary
Is delighted to learn they have "Macaw Cottage" [12 Upper Gower Street] – their second choice; hopes they have disposed of the dead dog in the garden. Much family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-464 |
To Emma Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Summary
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 13 September 1871]
Summary
Georgina [Tollet?] is eager to see a copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 13 Sept 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7946 |
To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
To John Murray 5 April [1859]
Summary
Sends title and first three chapters [of Origin]. Thinks first chapter will interest the public and is sure views are original. If JM thinks otherwise, he should freely reject the work. Chapter 2 is dull and abstruse, chapter 3 is plain and interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.35–35A) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2447 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Tollet , had been a Staffordshire neighbour of the Wedgwoods and a friend of Emma and CD since their childhood. On several occasions during visits to the Darwins, Georgina Tollet had made suggestions to CD about his experiments and theories: some of these were noted by CD and are in DAR 205. She eventually read the entire manuscript of Origin . Emma Darwin had lunched with the Tollets during her recent trip to London, 1–4 April 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The arrangement may have been made then. See letter …
From Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 28 [April 1851]
Summary
Thoughts after the death of Anne.
| Author: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 [Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1424 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
