To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 17 [Jan 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12429 |
To R. B. Litchfield 2 February 1880
Summary
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12453 |
From H. E. Litchfield to Leslie Stephen 10 January 1881
Summary
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Leslie Stephen |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13003 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 January 1881] . See Correspondence vol. 28, letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 . …
- … 1880 . Krause’s original essay ( Krause 1879 ) was substantially modified before it was translated into English for Erasmus Darwin . On Butler’s specific accusations against Krause, see the letter from Ernst Krause, 2 January 1881 and n. 3. ‘Op. 4’ was Butler 1879 . William Sweetland Dallas had translated Krause 1879 for Erasmus Darwin . On the proposed errata sheet, see the letter from Leonard …
To Henri de Saussure 17 March 1881
Summary
Thanks HdS for pebbles of Roman bricks. When he goes over MS [Earthworms] again, he will compare smoother ones with those having undergone attrition in gizzards of worms.
Has received book [La question du lac] sent by HdS.
Also sends photograph taken by Leonard Darwin of CD.
Requests photograph of HdS to add to his collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Arch. de Saussure 227 f. 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13088F |
From G. H. Darwin 4 March 1880
Summary
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12510 |
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To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
Summary
About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12972 |
To W. E. Darwin 31 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13034 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1880, CD had started distributing his surplus income each year to his children (see letter to the Darwin children, 3 January 1881 ). £30 duty was paid on the £1000 bequest from Elizabeth Wedgwood ; £50 was paid to Samuel Miles , who was Elizabeth’s butler from 1871 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)). Leonard Darwin was an instructor in chemistry and photography at the School of Military Engineering in Chatham; his letter …
To the Darwin children 8 January 1882
Summary
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13603 |
To J. L. Chester 2 March 1880
Summary
Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Lemuel Chester |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | James Innes (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, 13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12505F |
From Anthony Rich 1 March 1881
Summary
AR plans, when he dies, to leave sea-side house at Worthing to Huxley.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13071 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Leonard, ed. 1900. Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Moore, Thomas. 1839. Life, letters, and journals of Lord Byron. London: John Murray. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
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- … Leonard Darwin . CD and Emma Darwin were visiting Sara and William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 25 May to 8 June 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). James Russell Lowell , the poet, visited on 30 May 1880 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Probably Anne Ashburner , Sara Darwin’s aunt. William and Frances Anna Thomson had lunched with the Darwins on 11 May 1880 ( letter …
From Anthony Rich 26 October 1880
Summary
The Philadelphus CD sent is flourishing and appears to attract a particular kind of fly.
Science and the law as professions. Lawyers in politics.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12778 |
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- … 1880, he was elected MP for the University of London ( ODNB). The Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli had been defeated in the April 1880 election by the Liberal William Ewart Gladstone . Disraeli, who was of Jewish descent, looked to the ‘Orient’ and eastern philosophy as a source of wisdom ( Kalmar 2005 ). Rich had commented on Disraeli’s ‘orientalism’ in his letter of 7 March 1880 . Emma Darwin had been particularly critical of Disraeli’s proclamation of Queen Victoria as empress of India in 1876 ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1880 ) appeared in Scientific American Supplement , 9 April 1881. Obtund: blunt, deaden ( OED ). Leslie Stephen visited Down from 14 to 17 May 1881; Emily Elizabeth Loch visited from 14 to 18 May 1881; no visit by George Howard Darwin and Leonard Darwin is recorded ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Stephen was a founder member of the Sunday Tramps, a society for vigorous rural walking within convenient railway distance from London ( ODNB s.v. Sunday Tramps). They visited Down on 8 January 1882 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Bernard Darwin was Francis’s son; Francis’s letter …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Rich, Anthony | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
