From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin [25 January 1868]
Summary
Expresses his pleasure at GHD’s degree.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1868] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5798F |
From William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin 28 February [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5952 |
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5761 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker to Emma Darwin 24 September [1868]
Summary
Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 229–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6907 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
From C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 12 April 1868
Summary
Observations on expression in her baby daughter.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6112 |
From Cicely Mary Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin 9 February [1868]
Summary
Too late to observe baby’s tears.
| Author: | Cicely Mary Wedgwood; Cicely Mary Hawkshaw |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5855 |
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]
Summary
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
| Date: | [11–31 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7052 |
From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Summary
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
| 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 John Bush 29 February [1868]
Summary
Writes at Frank Buckland’s suggestion. Can JB provide any information on the proportion of sexes in rats?
Do male rats fight for the possession of the female? Are they polygamous?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Bush |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5961 |
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
To W. E. Darwin [15 March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6067 |
To Edward Blyth 25 March [1868]
Summary
Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6049 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [5–9 March 1868]
Summary
Would like to meet with WBT while in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [5–9 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5991 |
To G. G. Stokes 11 March [1868]
Summary
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add MS 7656: D75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6003 |
To W. E. Darwin 21 March [1868]
Summary
Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6037 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 March [1868]
Summary
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6050 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Hawkshaw, C. M. | (2) |
| Langton, Edmund | (2) |
| Wedgwood, C. M. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (3) |
