From William Graham to Francis Darwin [after 20 April 1882]
Summary
Sends enclosed letters and hopes they are not too late. Letter of 8 July 1881 important because it contains clear statement of CD’s attitude to religious questions.
| Author: | William Graham |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 20 Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 483 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769G |
From James Niven to Francis Darwin 12 March 1882
Summary
Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.
| Author: | James Niven |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726 |
From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin 22 February 1882
Summary
Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.
Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13697F |
From Francis Darwin to Raphael Meldola 12 January 1882
Summary
CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13611 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait [30 March 1882]
Summary
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | [30 Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13749 |
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 |
From J. Harris 16 May 1880
Summary
Can CD explain why apes still exist, now that humans have evolved.
| Author: | J. Harris |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12608F |
Darwin, Francis. 1882. Prof. Wiesner on ‘The power of movement in plants’. Nature, 20 April 1882, pp. 579–82, 27 April 1882, pp. 597–601.
Earthworms (1882): The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. Seventh thousand (corrected by Francis Darwin). London: John Murray. 1882.
From Francis Darwin [21 October 1881]
Summary
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474F |
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To Francis Galton 22 March [1882]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13732 |
From J. P. Taylor 14 November 1881
Summary
Thinks CD overestimates earthworms’ role in creating mould. Gives some observations on worms and questions about their breeding habits.
| Author: | John Pitt Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13483 |
From Michael Foster 18 January 1882
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the sensitivity of plants in light and darkness and Julius Wiesner’s assumptions [in Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13623 |
From George Peacock to J. S. Henslow [6 or 13 August 1831]
Summary
GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?
P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".
| Author: | George Peacock |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [6 or 13] Aug 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-104 |
To Francis Galton [November 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
Invites FG to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | [Nov 1874 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13811 |
From Francis Galton 23 March 1882
Summary
Thanks CD for an article [unspecified].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13735 |
To W. D. Fox [9 July 1831]
Summary
Poverty keeps him at Shrewsbury.
The Canary scheme still goes, CD is studying Spanish and geology.
Jenyns has started CD on Diptera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9 July 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-101 |
From Nicolai Mengden 2 April 1879
Summary
NvM is 17 years old. Confused by reading CD’s works and Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. Can a believer in CD’s theory believe in God?
| Author: | Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11971 |
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