From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 26 October [1877]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209F |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1877] and n. 2) was a cheque for 300 guineas (£315; CD’s Classed accounts (Down House MS), 3 October 1877). CD and Emma had visited William in Southampton from 13 June to 4 July 1877 ( …
- … Emma Litchfield and her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield , about his engagement (see letter from W. E. Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [28 September 1877] ( …
From W. E. Darwin to Emma and/or Charles Darwin c. 20–5 September 1877
Summary
Description of their English dinner companions at a foreign hotel.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | c. 20-25 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146F |
Wilsher, M. A. (1818/19–1903)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin at Bassett, Hampshire, from at least 1877. BMD ( Death index ) Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1661/421/2) England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 28 August 2019) letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [8 July 1877] ( …
To T. H. Huxley [after 26 November 1880]
Summary
Is glad that Hooker will sign memorial for Wallace’s pension. Had thought it hopeless because Hooker objected to ARW’s spiritualism and his bet on the sphericity of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [after 26 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 349) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12864 |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin and his American wife Sara Sedgwick sailed on 14 September 1878 to visit her family in Massachussetts ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, 17 September [1878] (DAR 219.1: 115)). Annie Brassey had recently published an account of a voyage around the world from July 1876 to May 1877 …
From Charles Hoare 20 November 1877
Summary
A poem in tribute to CD following the award of his Cambridge LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Hoare |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 140.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11243 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 January 1878
Summary
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11336 |
From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876]
Summary
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260F |
To Hyacinth Hooker [18 November 1877]
Summary
Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.
Thanks for bananas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11238 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The Sunday after 17 November 1877 was 18 November. Joseph Dalton Hooker used to send CD bananas from Kew; see Correspondence vol. 24, letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 December 1876 and n. 1. The unpopular proctor was Alfred Edward Humphreys , junior proctor ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 November 1877] ( …
To W. E. Darwin 22 June [1866]
Summary
Polymorphism in Rhamnus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5131 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877 in Forms of flowers (pp. 293–5). CD credited William with many of the observations, and added that he could ‘form no satisfactory theory how the four forms … originated’ (p. 295). The letter down to, and including, the first signature is in Henrietta Emma Darwin’s hand; the remainder is in CD’s hand. See CD’s annotations to the letter from W. E. …
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hoare, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
