To ? 4 May [1875]
Summary
Sends photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 4 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9970 |
From W. H. M. Christie 12 October 1874
Summary
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
| Author: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677 |
To G. H. Darwin [20? August 1874]
Summary
Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [20? Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9711 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … four months ( letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, 25 November [1874] (DAR 239.23: …
- … 1874] ). After discussion with CD, George decided to decline the invitation (see letters from Emma Darwin …
- … Emma Darwin’s illness and the visit from the Josiah Wedgwoods (see nn. 4 and 5, below). The letter to Ebenezer Norman and CD’s reply have not been found. George had asked Norman to make a fair copy of one of his manuscripts (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [4 November 1874] …
- … 1874, and in a letter to Leonard Darwin, 15 November [1874] (DAR 239.23: 1.24), she mentioned that Lucy Caroline Harrison (a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood III ) and her husband Matthew James Harrison , together with Josiah Wedgwood III’s family from Leith Hill Place, stayed at Down. They left on Wednesday 11 November ( Emma …
To G. H. Darwin [8 August 1874]
Summary
Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9596 |
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 December 1874
Summary
Has finished the "cousin paper" and will offer it to W. Farr for the Statistical Society.
Describes other work in progress.
Has CD heard of A. M. Mayer’s curious work on audition of insects [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 8 (1874): 89–103?]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9743 |
To R. F. Cooke 17 June [1874]
Summary
Hopes a printing of 2000 copies [of Descent, 2d ed.] will be safe. Regrets price must be 12s. He is sure it is much improved.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 340–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9496 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
To ? 8 June 1874
Summary
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.435) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9230 |
To F. C. Donders 7 July 1874
Summary
Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Date: | 7 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 417 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9535 |
From Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 26 June – 28 September 1874]
Summary
Describes voyage to New Zealand.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 239.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9517F |
To Leonard Darwin 25 November 1874
Summary
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9733 |
To G. H. Darwin [30 July 1874]
Summary
Hasty note to express his most decided opinion that letter [to Q. Rev.] should not give a sketch of GHD’s essay – only an explicit denial "& do not allude to me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [30 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9576 |
From F. C. Donders 12 July 1874
Summary
On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9545 |
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … way back from New Zealand (see letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 24 June [1874] ). …
- … but in the letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] , Emma stated that …
- … Emma Darwin’s niece Katherine Euphemia Farrer, known as ‘Effie’. James Clerk Maxwell was Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge from 1871, and was in charge of the development of the Cavendish Laboratory, which opened in 1874. George refers to George Chaworth Musters’s book At home with the Patagonians ( Musters 1871 ). Francis Maitland Balfour had been at the Zoological Station in Naples earlier in the year (see letter …
| Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Darwin, Francis | (4) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (108) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Carus, J. V. | (4) |
