From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Summary
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … A. Darwin, 9 November [1863] , letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [ …
- … 12 November 1863 and n. 4). See also letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, …
- … minutes, 5 November 1863). See letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [ …
- … 1863] ; in 1863, 22 and 23 November fell on the Sunday and Monday after that date. Letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] . See Emma Darwin’ …
- … 1863] and n. 5. William Henslow Hooker had been suffering from scarlet fever, but was evidently recovering (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [13 November 1863] and n. 6). The invitation to Henrietta Emma Darwin …
- … 1863] ). See also L. Huxley 1918 , pp. 39–44. Mesopotamia: ‘a word which is long, pleasant-sounding, and incomprehensible; used allusively for something which gives irrational or inexplicable comfort or satisfaction to the hearer’ ( OED ). This may be a reference to a letter from Patrick Matthew ; the letter has not been found but see letter from Emma Darwin …
From Edward Cresy 27 April 1863
Summary
CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sending up-to-date railway map of southern region.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4130 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 356). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, [15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: …
- … 15 April 1863] , in DAR 251: 2232, and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. …
- … 1863, George Howard Darwin competed unsuccessfully for an entrance scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge ( DNB ). See letter from George Howard Darwin to Emma …
To John Scott 7 November [1863]
Summary
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 7 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4332 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … 1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1863] ). Recent serious family illnesses included Charles Waring Darwin’s fatal attack of scarlet fever and Henrietta Emma ’ …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 [November 1863] , [22–3 November 1863] , and 27 [November 1863] ). Hooker’s note has not been found. According to Emma Darwin’ …
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CUL. Emma Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 . CD refers …
- … D. Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests that Charles Paget Hooker had also fallen ill. Following the publication and distribution of an appeal against the use of steel traps to control vermin, Emma organised the raising of subscriptions to fund a competition for the design of a humane trap under the auspices of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (see letter from Emma Darwin …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 April [1863]
Summary
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120F |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 , and letter from Emma Darwin to Friedrich …
- … 1863] . For his description of Orchis pyramidalis in Orchids , CD had used specimens from Kent and Devon (see Orchids , pp. 41, 47). The accuracy of CD’s diagram of O. pyramidalis ( Orchids , p. 22) had been questioned by Hildebrand’s colleague at the University of Bonn, Ludolph Christian Treviranus ( Treviranus 1863c , p. 243). In her letter to Hildebrand of 20 November [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11), Emma Darwin …
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 …
- … Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Following the interest Hooker had expressed in the letter …
- … 1863 . Hooker had asked CD if he could use the information Haast included in his letter of 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, …
- … Emma Darwin wrote in her diary (DAR 242) ‘good’ for 12 November and ‘fine day’ for 13 November; she also wrote that CD had been visited by William Brinton on 3 November 1863. The letter …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 8 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4355 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 21 [January 1863]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3399 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [ …
- … letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Scott began experimenting with a non-dimorphic cowslip in May 1863 ( …
- … 1863 on their respective crossing experiments. In September 1863 Scott sent CD a draft of the paper, which CD returned with suggestions for minor alterations, praising it as an ‘excellent memoir’ (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin …
To the Geological Society of London [c. 28 December 1863]
Summary
Recommendation of the admission of George Maw to the fellowship of the Geological Society of London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | [c. 28 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/F/1/6 No.2179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360F |
To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
Author: | Edward Sabine |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (75) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Scott, John | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (183) |
Hooker, J. D. | (51) |
Darwin, Emma | (23) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (23) |
Darwin, W. E. | (18) |