To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 July [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2300 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Rugby School. Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood was Emma Darwin’s brother. The daily reading in …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). ‘Josselinas’ was evidently a family nickname for the daughters of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood …
- … Wedgwood, or ‘Snow’, aged 24, the daughter of Hensleigh and Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood, was ‘a young woman of extreme passions and fastidious principles’ (B. Wedgwood and H. Wedgwood 1980 , p. 259). Emma Darwin …
From E. W. Fithian 30 May 1878
Summary
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
Author: | Edward William Fithian |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11535 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 June [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
From T. H. Farrer 30 October 1879
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12279 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Oct 1844 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-779 |
To John Murray [25? March 1868]
Summary
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [25? Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050F |
To Edward Alfred Smith [11–31 March 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 July [1858] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2304 |
From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6229 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
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 |
From B. J. Sulivan 9 June 1879
Summary
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097 |
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 |
From Anthony Rich 20 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12833 |
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 |
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