To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Summary
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1876]
Summary
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 417–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10592 |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
To Francis Darwin 20 September [1876]
Summary
Suggests German works worth translating.
Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10611 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 September [1876]
Summary
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622F |
From T. H. Huxley 19 November 1876
Summary
Agrees with CD that Charles Voysey’s "Protest" would not do any good.
Has less sympathy with half-hearted sentimental school than with thorough-going orthodoxy. On theological dogmas, benevolence of the Creator.
[Encloses copy of his letter to Voysey.]
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 346–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10679 |
From W. H. Flower 27 September 1876
Summary
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10620 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Summary
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses death of his daughter-in-law
and possible visit by EH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 40 [9893]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10601 |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … or Francis on the same day. Francis and his wife, Amy Darwin , had been practising typing …
- … Francis’s brother-in-law. Fritz ran away around 23 April 1876 ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 24 April [1876] (DAR 239.23: 1.42)). Presumably he was found by William Gardner , vicar of Orpington, whose late wife, …
To F. J. Cohn 26 September [1876]
Summary
Invites him to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10618 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 47–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10602 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 November [1876]
Summary
Writes about the purchase of a horse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10680 |
From W. E. Darwin 20 April [1876]
Summary
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10458F |
To W. E. Darwin 28 October [1876]
Summary
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10657 |
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
To W. E. Darwin 29 September [1876]
Summary
Discusses the purchase of some land;
plans to visit Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10625 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (2) |
