From Horace Darwin 19 June 1877
Summary
Notes on the position of one of the fallen stones [at Stonehenge].
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11009 |
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
From Horace Darwin to F. M. Balfour 14 March 1879
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has refused Cambridge Examinership. Frank, in agreement with his father, thinks he does not know enough systematic botany. HD believes this is not necessary. Can Frank still change his mind?
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 14 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103B/95–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11933 |
From T. H. Farrer to Horace Darwin [before 27 June 1879]
Summary
Explains why he does not approve of an engagement between his daughter, Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer and Horace Darwin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [before 27 June 1879] |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12124F |
To Horace Darwin 23 October [1879]
Summary
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 258: 549 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268G |
To Horace Darwin [28 June 1879]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a statement of CD’s finances and estimate of the inheritance his children may expect] for HD and Ida to read; CD very pleased to be able to leave his children comfortably provided for.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [28 June 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 5, 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12384 |
To Horace Darwin 1 January 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
To Horace Darwin 20 April [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12584 |
From Horace Darwin 4 September 1880
Summary
Observations on earthworms.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12707 |
From Horace Darwin 9 and 12 September 1880
Summary
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 and 12 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 36–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12709 |
From Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin [18 September 1880]
Summary
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [18 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12717 |
From Horace Darwin 7 October 1880
Summary
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12742 |
To Horace Darwin 9 December 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13541 |
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
To Horace Darwin [15 December 1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [15 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8107 |
To Horace Darwin [15 October 1873]
Summary
Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [15 Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 258: 548a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096F |
To Horace Darwin 9 January [1874]
Summary
CD is glad Horace has done "pretty well" in his examination.
Smith and Elder will publish new edition of Coral reefs [1874]; thanks HD for aid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9234 |
From Horace Darwin 17 August 1874
Summary
The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.
Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].
Author: | Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9603 |
To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [before 25 June 1859]
Summary
Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.
Author: | Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin |
Addressee: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer |
Date: | [before 25 June 1859] |
Classmark: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2472 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, Horace | (9) |
Darwin, Amy | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, Horace | (21) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (7) |
Darwin, Francis | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Darwin, H. E. | (7) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Darwin, Amy | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (8) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (9) |
Darwin, G. H. | (8) |
Darwin, H. E. | (8) |
Darwin, Horace | (30) |
Darwin, Leonard | (9) |
Darwin, Sara | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (8) |
Ruck, Amy | (2) |
Sedgwick, Sara | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |