To W. W. Baxter [after 4 December 1872]
Summary
Thanks for information about the Atropia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [after 4 Dec 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8659F |
To W. W. Baxter 14 November [1871]
Summary
Thanks for loan of measure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8066 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] [1842–82?]
Summary
Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | [1842–82?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11313 |
To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13774 |
To William Walmisley Baxter 23 September [1857–9?]
Summary
The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1857-9] |
| Classmark: | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2142F |
To W. W. Baxter 5 September [1873]
Summary
Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.431) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9043 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 8 December [1842–81]
Summary
Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1842-81] |
| Classmark: | University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11271F |
To Edward Frankland 7 October [1873]
Summary
Requests a piece of the most sensitive litmus paper in order to test the secretions of minute hairs of plants which catch minute flies. [See 9098.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1873] |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9090A |
From Leonard Darwin 7 January 1878
Summary
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11316 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 July 1873
Summary
Describes his recent work on Drosera digestion of organic materials, e.g., albumen and gelatin. Edward Frankland has given CD a rough test for pepsin. Some plant extracts cause as much inflection as meat. Has found some reversible inflection with heat and perhaps some heat rigor. Has measured the extreme sensitivity of Drosera with very dilute solution of ammonium phosphate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8987 |
To W. W. Baxter 21 September [1873]
Summary
Requests 6 2oz bottles with corks. Folic acid produces remarkable effect. Orders hydriodic acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061F |
From William Jenner 14 August 1864
Summary
CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4589 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 10 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13776 |
From W. W. Baxter 7 January 1878
Summary
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
| Author: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11315 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
To W. W. Baxter 2 [December 1872]
Summary
Asks about possible animal substances in samples of Belladonna and Digitalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Dec 1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8592 |
From W. W. Baxter 4 December 1872
Summary
Sends CD description of preparation of extract of belladonna.
| Author: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8659 |
To W. W. Baxter 16 July [1872?]
Summary
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 16 July [1872?] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7280 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 September [1873]
Summary
Requests chemicals for Drosera experiments. Lists 12 acids tried so far.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 6 (EH 88206058) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9046 |
To Edward Frankland 22 July 1874
Summary
Asks for the specific gravity of common phosphate of ammonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 22 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9559A |
| letter | (26) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Jenner, William | (2) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (15) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Baxter, William | (3) |
| Frankland, Edward | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (17) |
| Baxter, William | (3) |
| Frankland, Edward | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
