To William Erasmus Darwin 3 October [1851]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1456 |
To Godfrey Wedgwood 21 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks GW for his report about the rabbits at Sandon [Staffs.]. Fears case has broken down, except that it is now known that such a breed has run wild for some years. No need to send bodies since breed is so obscure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Godfrey Wedgwood |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1857 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Summary
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Summary
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
To Hurst & Blackett 15 November [1863]
Summary
Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hurst & Blackett |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4672 |
To John Lubbock [before 13 February 1869]
Summary
Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 13 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6612 |
To Eliza Meteyard 16 November [1865]
Summary
Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4936 |
To Hermann Kindt 22 November 1865
Summary
Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.
Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939F |
To Henry Johnson 23 December 1871
Summary
Is unable to accept invitation to Shrewsbury. Is grateful for offer of assistance at Wroxeter.
The weight of dry earth cast up by worms is 161/10 tons per acre annually.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118A |
To Trenham Reeks? 10 March [1858]
Summary
Asks whether correspondent can assist in determining value of slate slabs with relief figures executed for Josiah Wedgwood [I].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Trenham Reeks |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (GSM 1/501) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2236 |
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- … pottery’ ( Nature 20 (1879):38). The reliefs mentioned in the letter were sold later in the year (see letter to Trenham Reeks? , 13 August [1858] ). Dated from an entry in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) that records that the Barberini vase mentioned in the letter was sold for £75 on 3 April 1858. The wax bas-reliefs were probably some of those designed by John Flaxman for Josiah Wedgwood …
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| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hurst & Blackett | (1) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hurst & Blackett | (1) |
Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
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- … Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But …
About Darwin
Summary
To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
