To Gustaf Retzius 2 October 1879
Summary
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12245A |
To E. A. Wheler 26 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for information and stories about Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Date: | 26 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11955F |
To Francis Galton 8 June [1879]
Summary
Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 8 June [1879] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12095 |
To E. P. Wright 28 February [1879]
Summary
Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 28 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11908 |
To Francis Galton 22 March 1879
Summary
Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.
Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].
Asks about family letters.
Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 22 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11947 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin , were Erasmus Darwin’s daughters from his second marriage. CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin , had written to ask Seward to retract some of her statements (see Erasmus Darwin , p. 74). The letter from Erasmus Darwin to Mary Howard , written shortly before their marriage, is published in Erasmus Darwin , pp. 21–4. Letters exchanged by Erasmus and Josiah Wedgwood …
letter | (5) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Wright, E. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |