To G. H. Darwin [before 25 October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12961 |
To G. H. Darwin 20 January [1881]
Summary
[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.
Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13019 |
To G. H. Darwin 27–8 February [1881]
Summary
Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.
Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.
Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.
Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27–8 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13068 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.
Describes events at Patterdale.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13197 |
To G. H. Darwin 23 July 1881
Summary
GHD’s abstract from Nature [24 (1881): 231] has been published in Kosmos.
John Collier has finished his portrait of CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13252 |
To G. H. Darwin 24 August [1881]
Summary
The General Post Office sent one penny in response to GHD’s complaint, and demanded a receipt, which CD has sent. CD will keep the penny.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13295 |
To G. H. Darwin [28 August 1881]
Summary
Suggests that GHD employ W. M. Hacon as solicitor for selling E. A. Darwin’s house, rather than Mr Salt’s agents; he remembers that firm as full of odious people.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [28 Aug 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13300 |
To G. H. Darwin 30 August [1881]
Summary
CD is sorry he bothered GHD about the solicitor, but he boils with indignation to this day when he remembers how rudely he was treated by Mr Salt’s firm in London [40 years earlier].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13305 |
To G. H. Darwin 6 [October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 6 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13319 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 September [1881]
Summary
Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1.: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13322 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 November [1881]
Summary
Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1.: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13489 |
To G. H. Darwin 25 November [1881]
Summary
Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13511 |
From G. H. Darwin [9 June 1881]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13199 |
From G. H. Darwin 21 August 1881
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13294 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 August 1881
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13301 |
From G. H. Darwin [29 August 1881]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Aug 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13303 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 26 August 1881]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Aug 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13309 |
From G. H. Darwin [7 September 1881]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13321 |
From G. H. Darwin [9 September 1881]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13367 |
From G. H. Darwin 15 October 1881
Summary
Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13401 |
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