From W. E. Darwin 29 December 1881
Summary
North East Railway Consols.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13585F |
From W. E. Darwin 4 January 1882
Summary
Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13599F |
From W. E. Darwin 16 January [1882]
Summary
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13619F |
From W. E. Darwin 25 January 1882
Summary
Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13645F |
From W. E. Darwin 2 February [1882]
Summary
Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13654F |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January [1882]
Summary
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672F |
From W. E. Darwin 28 February [1882]
Summary
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13711F |
From W. E. Darwin 13 March 1882
Summary
Sends a dividend cheque.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726F |
From W. E. Darwin 15 March 1882
Summary
News about his dividends.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726G |
From W. E. Darwin 23 March 1882
Summary
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13734F |
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
From W. E. Darwin [17 November 1861]
Summary
Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3320 |
From W. E. Darwin [2 November 1862]
Summary
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362F |
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
From W. E. Darwin June 1862
Summary
Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585 |
From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
From W. E. Darwin 8 July [1862]
Summary
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644F |
From W. E. Darwin 14 July 1862
Summary
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3657 |
From W. E. Darwin [9? September 1862]
Summary
Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9? Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674G |
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Darwin, W. E. | |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, Sara | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Sara | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (172) |
Darwin, Emma | (7) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
Abbot, F. E. | (2) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (184) |
Darwin, C. R. | (173) |
Darwin, Emma | (7) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
Abbot, F. E. | (2) |