To Emma Darwin [28 April 1858]
Summary
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [28 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2261 |
To Emma Darwin [25 April 1858]
Summary
Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.
Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.
Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [25 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2413 |
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. 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 |
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 J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 [October 1858]
Summary
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 [Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2341 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
To W. E. Darwin [20 June 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2267 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , William’s cousin, had entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1856 ( Alum. Cantab . ). They had attended Rugby School together. William was preparing to take up residence at Christ’s College, Cambridge. On 8 September 1858, he left Down for the village of Forncett, Norfolk, to resume his tutorials with William Greive Wilson for a short time ( Emma Darwin’ …
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |