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]
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) |