From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
To Francis Darwin 16 September [1876]
Summary
Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.
Sadness at the death of Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10604 |
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
To Francis Darwin 25 September [1876]
Summary
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10617 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
To Francis Darwin [28 September 1876]
Summary
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10623 |
To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629 |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10638 |
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876]
Summary
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 July 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10747 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To Francis Darwin [c. December 1876]
Summary
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [10 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10995 |
To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Summary
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1878?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
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| Darwin, Sara | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, Amy | (1) |
| Ruck, Amy | (1) |
