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 |
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
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
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 |
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 |
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 …
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’ …
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 |
letter | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Dixon, R. W. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Galton, E. A. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Retzius, Gustaf | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Wheler, E. A. | (1) |
Wright, E. P. | (1) |