To Francis Darwin 30 July [1878]
Summary
Comments on function of bloom.
Describes the effect of water shortage on sleep movements in Porlieria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11635 |
To Saba Holland 4 December [1854]
Summary
Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Saba Smith; Saba Holland |
Date: | 4 Dec [1854] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1610F |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To Susan Darwin 3[–4] September 1845
Summary
"All about household and money matters." The family is now living on about £1000 per annum. Plans a new walk and additions to the house.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 3[–4] Sept 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-913 |
To Charles Lyell 20 [June 1860]
Summary
Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.
Comments on free-will in animals.
Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".
Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.
Discusses Arctic flora.
Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2838 |
To Francis Darwin [19 August 1878]
Summary
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [19 Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 4v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11669 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
To Thomas Salt 24 December 1851
Summary
Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 24 Dec 1851 |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1465F |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1043 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … pp. 119, 140–1. Francis Wedgwood, brother of Josiah Wedgwood III and of Emma Darwin . …
- … Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were the trustees of Emma Darwin’s trust …
- … Wedgwood III, 14 August 1847. Charles Stokes , fellow of the Geological Society, was a stockbroker in Threadneedle Street in the City of London ( Modern English Biography ). CD’s Investment Book (Down House MS) records that Stokes purchased shares in the Leeds & Bradford Railway for Emma Darwin’ …
To Charles Lyell 14 August [1863]
Summary
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4267 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 August [1878]
Summary
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11651 |
To G. H. Darwin 17 [August 1878]
Summary
He and Emma rejoice that GHD’s mathematical troubles are at an end. It is miraculous that he unconsciously followed the right course – like composing a sonata by a fluke.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 17 [Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11663 |
To Francis Darwin [17 August 1878]
Summary
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Aug 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11668 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 [December 1856]
Summary
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 [Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2019 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 106). Henrietta Litchfield later recalled that Sarah Wedgwood ‘lived …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). These uncles were Emma’s brothers and her cousin, John Allen Wedgwood. …
- … Wedgwood II . She had moved to Petleys, a house in Down village, in 1847 (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] and Emma …
- … Darwin , then at Rugby School. Dated by the reference to the funeral of Sarah Elizabeth (Sarah) Wedgwood, who died on 6 November 1856. Sarah Wedgwood , CD’s and Emma’ …
To W. D. Fox 26 [August 1829]
Summary
If convenient, CD will visit WDF at Osmaston early in September. Went to Barmouth with his sisters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 26 [Aug 1829] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-70 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
Summary
Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2215 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Meteyard 1875 , pp. 302–5). Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. …
- … Wedgwood copy of the famous antique Roman vase purchased by the Duchess of Portland in 1784. The particular vase mentioned by CD was probably one of two owned by the family and may have been the one he acquired in 1844 following the death of Emma Darwin’ …
To Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood 28 June [1864]
Summary
Family matters; CD’s feelings on death of FW’s son [James Mackintosh Wedgwood, 1834–64].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
Date: | 28 June [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.300) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4547 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin Down 28 June [1864] Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh/Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood …
- … Wedgwood, 25 April [1851] ). Hensleigh Wedgwood . CD refers to Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood and to Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
- … Wedgwood (see n. 2, below). James Mackintosh Wedgwood, the eldest son of Frances Emma Elizabeth and Hensleigh Wedgwood , died on 24 June 1864 after a long illness (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , p. 279; see also letter from E. A. Darwin, [ …
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
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