From W. E. Darwin 4 April 1877
Summary
Arrangements about a purchase of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923F |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
From W. D. Fox 3 April [1877]
Summary
Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923 |
From W. D. Fox 29 November [1877]
Summary
Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,
and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11261 |
From W. E. Darwin [25 March? 1877]
Summary
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Mar? 1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922F |
From W. D. Fox 22 July [1878]
Summary
Thanks CD for his condolences. Reminisces about their youth.
On the death of his naturalist friend, W. C. Hewitson.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11625 |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 February [1878]
Summary
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11345 |
From W. D. Fox 12 February [1878]
Summary
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11355 |
Matches: 1 hit
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1877?]
Summary
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A44, A71–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10343 |
To Edward Holland [after 12 July 1843]
Summary
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Holland |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1843] |
| Classmark: | John L. McDonald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-970 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. D. Fox, [15 March 1829] ). Frederick Neville Isaac , a brother of Holland’s wife, Sophia Isaac . Isaac had settled in the Darling Downs, Queensland, an area rich in fossils (see Aurousseau, ed. 1968 , 2: 745, 768–9). Isaac did eventually send an account of Australian fossils to Richard Owen dated 5 July 1845 ( British Museum (Natural History) Owen Collection, Letters). Owen (1877– …
To John Maurice Herbert 2 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks JMH for book of poems.
Recalls early days together. He cannot visit due to health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1814 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877, Herbert edited a book of his wife’s poems entitled Poems by the late Mary Anne Herbert (London). For the extant correspondence between CD and Herbert, see Correspondence vols. 1 and 2. In the summer of 1828, CD spent two months with Herbert and Thomas Butler in Barmouth on an ‘Entomo-Mathematical expedition’ ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [ …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
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