To W. E. Darwin 31 [October 1871]
Summary
Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].
Goes to Leith Hill on Friday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 31 [Oct 1871] |
| Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8038F |
To W. E. Darwin 3 [November 1871]
Summary
Is sending some proofs for correction by WED [6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 [Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8048 |
To W. E. Darwin [4 November 1871]
Summary
Thanks WED for a correction [to proofs of Origin, 6th ed.].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8051 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
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- … Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle. …
- … Dated by the reference to the family visiting Leith Hill Place (see n. 3, below). E. A. …
- … s diary records that the children went to Leith Hill Place, the home of Caroline Sarah …
- … is fixed. — We all went on Saturday to Leith-Hill & I went for rest-sake, as I had become …
- … quite well, but will, I hope come to night. Leith H. was looking beautiful. — I get on …
From John Coldstream 13 September 1831
Summary
Suggestions and information helpful to CD in preparation for Beagle voyage. David Brewster’s meteorological papers. Suggests an oyster-trawl for collecting marine animals. Recommends CD see R. E. Grant. For meteorological observations suggests F. W. Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific [1831] and an interview with J. F. Daniell of King’s College.
| Author: | John Coldstream |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-124 |
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- … DAR 204: 64 John Coldstream Leith 13 Sept 1831 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … with much esteem, Yours most sincerely | John Coldstream *S 2 Leith 13 th Sept 1831. …
- … of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort, every hour of the day and night, …
- … of hourly Meteorological observations made at Leith Fort in 1824 & –25. It is in the X th …
To Francis Darwin [6 November 1871]
Summary
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054 |
To Hugo de Vries [10 or 11 August 1878]
Summary
Arranges for HdeV to call.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [10 or 11 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11643 |
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- … Library (De Vries 4a) Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [10 or 11 Aug 1878] Hugo de …
- … Leith Hill Place | Dorking My dear Sir, I am much pleased that you should think it worth …
- … and by the date of CD’s departure from Leith Hill Place, 12 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s …
- … left Down on 7 August 1878 and visited Leith Hill Place, Surrey, the home of CD’s sister, …
To J. D. Hooker [18 May 1862]
Summary
Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.
Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.
Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.
Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3558 |
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- … DAR 115: 154 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [18 May 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … and by reference to the Darwins’ stay at Leith Hill Place, home of Caroline Sarah Wedgwood …
- … Wedgwood III . The Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see ‘ …
- … Leith Hill Place Sunday My dear old friend. I cordially thank you for your two letters; & …
To Francis Darwin [10 June 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [10 June 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10995 |
To J. F. Fisher 8 August [1878]
Summary
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Fisher |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645 |
To W. D. Fox [17 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3555 |
Foggo, John (fl. 1820s)
Matches: 1 hit
- … of papers on entomology and meteorology. Of Leith, Midlothian. 1 Author of papers on …
To James Torbitt 13 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for report [on potato experiments].
Still has subscription money for JT’s experiments. How much does he need?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12910 |
To W. H. Flower 12 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks WHF for photographs [of niata ox skull]. Will tell Quatrefages de Bréau about the cast. May have the photographs copied for woodcuts to illustrate his book on variation under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 12 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158 |
To L. A. Errera 8 August [1878]
Summary
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11644 |
To A. S. Wilson 9 August [1878]
Summary
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11646 |
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Leith
Summary
What to take
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- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
Summary
Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
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- … the Darwins set off on a round of visits to relatives at Leith Hill and Abinger in Surrey, and then …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … exhibition, ‘in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place’; i.e. Sophy Wedgwood, daughter …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … world of sea creatures he could observe on the beach at Leith. His first paper, in March 1827, …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … of fieldwork undertaken in the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Montague Street in London in March, visited the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place in June, stayed with …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … yards of ground were marked out near the Wedgwoods’ home, Leith Hill Place in Surrey, and CD’s niece …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … William and his wife Sara, and visits to the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place, and the Farrers at …
