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 |
To Francis Darwin [13–26 May 1878]
Summary
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [13–26 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11538 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877]
Summary
CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".
Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 435–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10874 |
From Francis Darwin [after 14 November 1881]
Summary
Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13485F |
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 E. R. Lankester 13 October [1881]
Summary
Says that salt water kills earthworms.
Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13396 |
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 J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
Matches: 2 hits
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
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 |
From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of Francis Sacheverel Darwin (Galton’s uncle), a son of Erasmus Darwin and his second wife …
- … Francis Sacheverel Darwin . Galton’s father was Samuel Tertius Galton . Erasmus’s father was Robert Darwin ; his grandfather was William Darwin (1655–82). The photographs have not been found; the book has not been identified. Violetta Galton . Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin was the wife …
To Francis Galton 18 [December 1881]
Summary
Can FG call on Monday evening?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13560 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 February [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13042 |
To F. J. Cohn 8 August 1877
Summary
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11095 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
| Darwin, Francis | (18) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
