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From T. H. Farrer 30 October 1879
Summary
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
| 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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Summary
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
From Francis Galton 9 June 1879
Summary
Memorandum about Dr Erasmus Darwin’s bequests.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin never married. CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin , had five other children: Marianne Parker , Caroline Sarah Wedgwood , …
- … Darwin , still living at the time of his death, were Edward , Violetta (later Violetta Galton, 1783–1874) , Emma Georgiana Elizabeth , Francis Sacheverel , John (1787–1818) , and Harriot (later Harriot Maling) . Susanna Hadley and Mary Parker Jr were the illegitimate daughters. Robert Waring Darwin married Susannah Wedgwood ( …
From R. W. Dixon [after 20 December 1879]
Summary
Three letters from Erasmus Darwin to Dixon’s great-grandfather, transcribed by Dixon. Enclosure to a missing letter.
| Author: | Robert Walker Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Dec 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 218: D1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12368F |
From W. D. Fox 3 March [1879]
Summary
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 172–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , Susan Elizabeth Darwin , and Catherine Langton . Fox probably refers to a photograph of CD taken by Leonard Darwin in 1878 (DAR 225: 119) and to an earlier one taken around 1857 by Maull & Fox (DAR 225: 175; see also Correspondence vol. 8, frontispiece). Narcissus obvallaris (a synonym of N. pseudonarcissus ssp. major ) is the Tenby daffodil. The winter of 1878–9 was one of the coldest on record for England ( Manley 1974 , p. 396); Emma Darwin’ …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
