To C. E. Norton 7 October 1875
Summary
Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 7 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185 |
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
To C. E. Norton 25 October 1877
Summary
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11208 |
To C. E. Norton 30 April 1881
Summary
Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13140 |
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 |
From C. E. Norton 22 September 1875
Summary
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10166 |
From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Norton, C. E. | (2) |