To John Price 27 December 1881
Summary
Congratulates JP on marriage of daughter.
Consoles him on his poor health.
Death of Mrs Smith a severe loss.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13581 |
From H. M. Wallis 14 March 1881
Summary
Reports some observations on the growth of hair on his baby son’s ears.
| Author: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13085 |
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- … DAR 210.9: 15 Henry Marriage Wallis Reading 14 Mar 1881 Charles Robert Darwin …
To H. M. Wallis 31 March 1881
Summary
Encourages HMW’s study of growth of hair on ears. Recommends he publish findings in Nature.
Comments on facts about goatsucker and dorkings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13102 |
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- … DAR 148: 280 Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Mar 1881 Henry Marriage Wallis …
To H. M. Wallis 22 March 1881
Summary
Comments on HMW’s discovery concerning growth of hair on human ears. Asks permission to publish fact.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13095 |
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- … DAR 148: 279 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Mar 1881 Henry Marriage Wallis …
From Anthony Rich 9 February 1881
Summary
Contemptuous of Samuel Butler.
Has read that Huxley will be Inspector of Fisheries.
When CD visits in spring, he will acquaint him with legalities of Worthing house.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13046 |
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- … 1879. McLennan, John Ferguson. 1865. Primitive marriage: an inquiry into the origin …
- … of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Movement …
- … 3 March 1879 ). McLennan’s book Primitive marriage had been published in 1865 ( McLennan …
- … his friend McLellan’s book on Primitive Marriage— For the reason already given it lies …
From H. M. Wallis 27 March 1881
Summary
Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.
Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.
| Author: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13099 |
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- … DAR 210.9: 16 Henry Marriage Wallis Reading 27 Mar 1881 Charles Robert Darwin …
From W. M. Hacon 20 September 1881
Summary
Details of new will. 12/74ths to each son and 7/74ths to each daughter.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13346 |
From B. W. Savile 27 September 1881
Summary
Finds it difficult to reconcile evolution with Mosaic record, but thinks it does not necessarily involve "infidel" principles.
Asks "How life born of an egg, can evolve life born of a mammal?"
| Author: | Bourchier Wrey Savile |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13358 |
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- … married Savile’s daughter Blanche Eleanora Bourchier in 1869 ( BMD ( Marriage index )). …
From W. M. Hacon 23 September 1881
Summary
Clarifies some details of CD’s new will.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13353 |
From S. H. Haliburton 8 September [1881]
Summary
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13323 |
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- … of CD and Erasmus in Shrewsbury before her marriage. Sobieski Mostyn Owen , Haliburton’s …
From W. E. Darwin [7 October 1881]
Summary
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13325F |
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- … settled on Emma Darwin as part of her marriage settlement (see Correspondence vol. 2, …
To W. M. Hacon 11 September 1881
Summary
Wishes to draw up a new will; outlines the changes to be made in the provisions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13330 |
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- … 28 August 1881 ). For the details of the marriage settlement between Horace Darwin and Ida …
From G. H. Darwin 28 August 1881
Summary
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13301 |
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- … Darwin ; there were three trustees of his marriage settlement with Charlotte Maria Cooper …
To C. E. Norton 1 June 1881
Summary
No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.
Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].
Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 1 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13187 |
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- … me by the grandchildren by his second marriage; when I was preparing my little notice of …
To J. D. Hooker 20 June [1881]
Summary
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 516–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13211 |
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- … more valuable, probably, than Primitive Marriage. Your address must be a horrid bore. — …
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield [11 June 1881]
Summary
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
| Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [11 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12960 |
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- … Add MS 9368.1: 9533), and by reference to the marriage to the Northcote nephew (see n. 10, …
From W. M. Hacon to Leonard Darwin 8 October 1881
Summary
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13379 |
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- … also be asked whether, on the occasion of her marriage, or at any time he has executed any …
From W. E. Darwin [13 October 1881]
Summary
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340G |
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- … Railway debenture stock on Henrietta on her marriage. William and Sara Darwin had visited …
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1881
Summary
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13557 |
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- … and the £500 annual allowance from his marriage settlement. See L. G. Wilson 1998 , pp. …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
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- … Westwood had been Bernard’s nurse until her marriage in April 1881 to Arthur Parslow . The …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … in different groups. Most cultures forbade consanguineous marriages to some degree, and some forbade …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … pragmatic world portrayed by Jane Austen, where successful marriages, even when feelings ran high, …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.’ …
