From F. J. Cohn 5 August 1877
Summary
Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.
Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11093 |
To W. C. Marshall 19 September 1876
Summary
Asks WCM to design additional rooms for Down House.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.499) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10609 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880]
Summary
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12945 |
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
From E. A. Greaves 14 December 1877
Summary
Offers to sell CD a portrait of Dr Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11280 |
From J. M. Herbert 28 December 1880
Summary
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12884 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876
Summary
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10671 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 May 1878
Summary
Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11508 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1881]
Summary
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141G |
To W. H. Flower [after 16 February 1880]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [after 16 Feb 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 19v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12505 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … wife had heart or circulation problems (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 ). Hooker refers to Clement Francis Wedgwood (see letter from Emma Darwin …
- … Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL). Wallace had independently formulated the theory of natural selection; his statement was published jointly with CD’s (see C. Darwin and Wallace 1858, and Correspondence vol. 7). Hooker and his wife, Frances Harriet Hooker , had visited Francis …
To Francis Darwin 17 October 1881
Summary
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13411 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Shaen stayed for five days, but the entries appear to be made one week out and incorrectly give the days as 10 to 15 February; Emma also incorrectly recorded that Francis Galton and William Cecil Marshall came to dinner on Saturday 12 February instead of Saturday 19 February. Both Galton and Marshall were still at Down on 20 February; Louisa Jane Galton , Galton’s wife, …
To Julius Wiesner 25 October 1881
Summary
Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Wiesner |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13432 |
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 |
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