To W. E. Darwin 27 [February 1858]
Summary
CD intends to enter WED at Christ’s College.
Thanks him for inquiries made about horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2227 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May–June 1858]
Summary
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [May–June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: B18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2195 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1858]
Summary
Sends MS on large and small genera.
Observed slave-making ants at Moor Park.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 May [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2269 |
From W. H. Miller [14 May 1858]
Summary
[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.
| Author: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: B1b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2272 |
To W. E. Darwin [3 May 1858]
Summary
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [3 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2268 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). He was probably referring to the wallpaper for the new rooms at Down (see letter to W. E. Darwin, [ …
- … their backs. See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 April 1858] . William Greive Wilson was …
- … 1858, records a payment of £4 11 s . 6 d . to ‘Sparks (William’s books)’. Campbell 1845–7 . CD had read parts of the work ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 119: 21a,119: 22b). For CD’s intention that his son should become a barrister, see Correspondence vol. 6, letters to W. E. Darwin, [ …
- … 1858] . In CD’s notes relating to bees’ cells (DAR 48 (ser. 2): 1), there is a cut-out figure which, when folded, would give a hexagonal prism resembling a bee’s cell. This is possibly the ‘hexagon’ made by William Darwin . Across the figure CD wrote in pencil: ‘Miller can give me better Diagram’. See letters to W. E. Darwin, …
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Summary
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
To W. D. Fox [12 February 1859]
Summary
Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.
The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.
His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2412 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To Hugh Falconer 15 October [1858]
Summary
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4636 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 June [1858]
Summary
Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.
Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 5 June [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2280 |
To W. E. Darwin [31 May 1862]
Summary
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3580 |
From E. A. Darwin [before 8 June 1858]
Summary
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 48b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2278 |
To W. D. Fox 24 [March 1859]
Summary
Is correcting chapters [of Origin] for press.
Health has been wretched of late.
He values fame to a certain extent, but "if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2436 |
To W. E. Darwin [26 April 1858]
Summary
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2265 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (66) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (28) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Innes, J. B. | (4) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (4) |
