From Francis Darwin [12 July 1878]
Summary
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11604 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin’s letter to Francis Darwin nor Francis’s letter to Elizabeth and Emma Darwin has …
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [before 7 July 1878] ). CD had acknowledged Hugo de Vries’s work on climbing plants in the second edition of Climbing plants , and endorsed De Vries’s conclusion that twining stems were not irritable whereas tendrils were ( Climbing plants 2d ed. , pp. 16–17, 170–1, and 204). Neither Elizabeth …
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12668 |
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
Summary
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [May 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166F |
From J. R. Atkin 7 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
| Author: | James Richard (Dick) Atkin, Baron Atkin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12185 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to Francis Darwin, 24 June [1879] ). Francis Darwin’s son, Bernard Darwin , was Atkin’s cousin. Emma Darwin , Elizabeth …
- … letter to Atkin has not been found. Elizabeth Darwin had travelled to Switzerland with Atkin’s mother, Mary Elizabeth Atkin , in June 1879, and his younger brothers, Walter Stewart George Davenport Atkin and Robert Laurence Atkin , had stayed at Down (see letter from Francis Darwin, [ …
From Reginald Darwin 7 April 1879
Summary
Is glad CD has found interest in "the old book" [Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book].
Discusses Erasmus Darwin and his belongings, which RD has inherited.
Owns a portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
| Author: | Reginald Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11980 |
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [January 1860]
Summary
CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.
Lyell is working on man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2651 |
To the Darwin children 10 January 1880
Summary
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12414 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]
Summary
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 90.1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3671 |
From Francis Darwin [6 July 1879]
Summary
Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 July 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12296F |
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin 30 June 1879
Summary
Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy’s address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12128F |
From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
To Francis Darwin 20 May 1881
Summary
Thanks FD for his excellent corrections [to MS of Earthworms].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13169 |
From Francis Darwin 29 May 1879
Summary
Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12067F |
To Francis Darwin 30 July [1878]
Summary
Comments on function of bloom.
Describes the effect of water shortage on sleep movements in Porlieria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11635 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Francis Darwin, 24 and 25 July 1878 , reporting being unwell and also his conversations with Julius Sachs . The second letter from Francis, with the impudent beginning, has not been found. Hugo de Vries was working in Sachs’s laboratory in Würzburg. The Darwins visited family in Surrey and Staffordshire between 7 and 22 August 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The only mention of Frances Emma Elizabeth …
To Francis Darwin [before 1 August 1880]
Summary
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12645 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Francis Darwin, [1 August 1880] . CD refers to Edward Burnett Tylor ’s presidential address to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in which Tylor discussed recent archaeological work on German ‘high-fields’ and their similarity to Scottish ‘elf-furrows’ and tilled plots in Swedish forests ( Tylor 1880 , p. 451). CD cited Tylor 1880 in Earthworms , p. 293 n. Mary Elizabeth …
To C. E. Norton 1 June 1881
Summary
No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.
Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].
Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 1 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13187 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from C. E. Norton, 17 May 1881 . Norton had asked whether CD had any letters from Benjamin Franklin to Erasmus Darwin . Erasmus Darwin’s second wife was Elizabeth Darwin (1747–1832). Among the grandchildren who sent information to CD for his book ( Erasmus Darwin ) were Francis Galton , Elizabeth …
To Francis Galton 15 [June 1879]
Summary
CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.
May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 15 [June 1879] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12109 |
To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
Summary
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12972 |
Matches: 1 hit
From W. M. Hacon 20 September 1881
Summary
Details of new will. 12/74ths to each son and 7/74ths to each daughter.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13346 |
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