From W. E. Darwin 10 February [1880]
Summary
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11352 |
To W. E. Darwin [before 16 September 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 16 Sept 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12383 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January [1880]
Summary
Delighted by honour CD has received from Turin. Agrees with Horace that the money ought to be given to the Zoological Station at Naples.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404F |
From W. E. Darwin [28 January 1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan 1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440G |
From C. G. Gordon to W. E. Darwin 27 March 1880
Summary
Encloses a statement [missing] and asks CD, if he uses it, to omit CGG’s name and to attribute it to "an officer, who has been long among Asiatics".
Author: | Charles George Gordon |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (tipped in opposite p. 244 in L. Strachey 1918 (1975 781)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12550 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 [April 1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 [Apr 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12564 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 April [1880]
Summary
Is beginning Geikie’s Ice age. Describes flints found on the common. Comments on exciting election.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12564G |
To W. E. Darwin [9 May 1880]
Summary
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [9 May 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12601 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 [June 1880]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 [June 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12624 |
From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 13 June [1880]
Summary
CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 13 June [1880] |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12633 |
To W. E. Darwin 18 June 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12639 |
From W. E. Darwin 24 June [1880]
Summary
Asks whether CD will forward enclosed to Lord Derby, and offers to send him a copy of the New York state survey. Will go to Beaulieu in the early autumn. Tells story about gallenes raised by hens being attacked.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12642G |
To W. E. Darwin [19 July 1880]
Summary
Writes about gravel deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [12655?] on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [19 July 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12661 |
From W. E. Darwin 20 August 1880
Summary
Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694F |
To W. E. Darwin 10 September [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12710 |
From W. E. Darwin 16 September 1880
Summary
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12714F |
From W. E. Darwin 22 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Movement in plants and says he is enjoying it. Is pleased that a full article appeared in the Times. Will go to Beaulieu soon for worm casts. His gardener calls worms “our civil engineers”. Promised to tell Frank how to make plants bend.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12840F |
To W. E. Darwin 23 [November 1880]
Summary
Asks WED to observe whether worms consistently draw acacia leaves into their burrows with a particular end first.
Will soon know whether he will need worm-castings from Beaulieu.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 23 [Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12848 |
From W. E. Darwin 26 November [1880]
Summary
Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12861 |
To W. E. Darwin 30 November [1880]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12876 |
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