From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 117 Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin [13 Jan 1861] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … House on 11 January 1861, and left on 21 January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma …
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861] …
- … according to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), went to London on 10 January 1861, returning …
- … 2226), letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [30 January 1861] (DAR 219.1: 36), [12 …
- … references in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242; see nn. 2 and 8, below). In 1861, 13 January …
- … March [1861] ) has not been further identified. London Bridge station. Emma Darwin added …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); to the London home of her father, Robert James Mackintosh , at 2 Hyde Park Terrace ( Post Office London directory 1861); …
From Emma Darwin [June 1861]
Summary
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3169 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Summary
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3119 |
To W. E. Darwin [27 October 1861]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3302 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … at Down House from 25 to 28 October 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). William Darwin had taken …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin had gone to London on 21 October 1861 and Emma returned on 26 …
- … introducing William (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 12 October [1861] ). Emma and …
- … Emma Darwin’s trip to London and to Emily Catherine Darwin’s visit to Down House (see nn. 8 and 9, below). William’s letter has not been found. George Wood was a farmer in Down ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Joseph Parslow , butler at Down House, had won third prize at a Rifle Volunteer Corps musketry event held at Down on 22 October 1861 ( …
To Daniel Oliver 23 April [1861]
Summary
Congratulations on DO’s marriage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3125F |
To W. E. Darwin 12 October [1861]
Summary
Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.
Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3284 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … croquet’. An entry for 4 September 1861 in Emma Darwin’s diary reads ‘Etty played Croqet’, …
- … on 7 October 1861 to prepare the illustrations for Orchids ( Emma Darwin’s diary). William …
- … According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Sowerby stayed until 12 October 1861. He returned to …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). The conditions of the partnership had been first established in May 1861 …
To William Erasmus Darwin [24 January 1861]
Summary
Writes of Henrietta’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3051 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 June 1868
Summary
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6230 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1861]
Summary
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3149 |
To W. E. Darwin 21 and 22 April [1861?]
Summary
Returns [an unspecified] enclosure referring to "a most wonderful cure".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Apr 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3124 |
To P. L. Sclater 21 [April 1861]
Summary
Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 21 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.245) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3123 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 May [1861]
Summary
Discusses family and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3145 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … butler. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that she went to London on 8 May 1861 and ‘Went …
- … Emma’s diary, George Howard and Francis Darwin were home from school from 2 to 4 March 1861. …
- … Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Alfred Allen (Tim) Wedgwood, the nineteen-year-old son of Hensleigh and Fanny Wedgwood , came to Down on 1 May 1861 …
To W. E. Darwin 4 November [1861]
Summary
Reports events at Down;
has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3307 |
To W. E. Darwin 1 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 1 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3171 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent 15 July 1862
Summary
Continues breeding guinea-pigs to test effects of warmth on gestation period. Concludes period is ten weeks and warmth has no influence. Offers CD the specimens.
Awaits Variation.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (114) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Darwin, Emma | (7) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (24) |
| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (143) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (26) |
| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Lubbock, John | (8) |
