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
Summary
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
| 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
Summary
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
| 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]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| 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 |
| 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) |
