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 |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 December 1875]
Summary
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287G |
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875]
Summary
Sends Linnean papers.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287F |
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 |
To Asa Gray 19 March [1877]
Summary
Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].
Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10901 |
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
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
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]
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, …
From J. F. McLennan 30 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for reference [to Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880)].
Irate against L. H. Morgan.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12877 |
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 Francis Darwin 28 [October 1881]
Summary
Earthworms is selling well.
Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.
Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.
S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 28 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13440 |
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