To Francis Darwin 8 [June? 1868]
Summary
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 [June? 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5769 |
To Francis Darwin 5 December [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7021 |
To Francis Darwin 30 August [1867–70]
Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1867-70] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7312 |
To Francis Darwin 18 October [1870]
Summary
Sends a cheque to pay off FD’s debts. Warns him of the dangers of overspending his income and advises him strongly to keep accounts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346 |
To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871]
Summary
Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.
On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.
He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.
[See 7507 and 7519.]
He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.
Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.
If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 2 and 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520A |
To Francis Darwin 25 March [1871]
Summary
If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7626 |
To Francis Darwin 22 April [1871?]
Summary
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708A |
To Francis Darwin 16 May [1871]
Summary
George [Darwin] plans a trip to America and would like FD to go [see 7757]. CD will gladly pay whole cost if the trip will not interfere with FD’s medical work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 May [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761 |
To Francis Darwin 21 May [1871]
Summary
CD will pay for the American trip if it takes place.
Asks whether FD can help him understand the eyes of cephalopods; is the structure the same as in the Vertebrata and are the parts developed from homologous layers of skin?
Has been pleased by a recent review.
Postscript: Is thinking of a cheap edition of the Origin [1872] in which he hopes to answer St George Mivart’s criticisms.
Asks FD whether he can get some references to good papers on cephalapod eyes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 21 May [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
DCP-LETT-7839A
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7839A |
To Francis Darwin [6 November 1871]
Summary
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054 |
To Francis Darwin 6 January 1872
Summary
Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8147 |
To Francis Darwin 13 May [1872]
Summary
Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 13 May [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8325 |
To Francis Darwin [before 15 April 1873]
Summary
Sends to Pantlludw [North Wales] bottle of formic acid. FD and Amy [Darwin] can search for spawn. If found, keep in two basins and add 6 drops of acid to one and look for differences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848A |
To Francis Darwin 16 April [1873]
Summary
"Try only 1 or 2 drops of Formic A[cid]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8862 |
To Francis Darwin [17 April 1873]
Summary
Fears all the seeds are dead. Will try with less vapour of formic acid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [17 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8866 |
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
To Francis Darwin 18 [August 1873]
Summary
Pollination and floral structure of Lathyrus. Asks where bees bite through the flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 18 [Aug 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 9; DAR 271.4: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9015 |
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