Trollope, Anthony. 1861. Framley parsonage. 3 vols. London.
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- … Trollope, Anthony. 1861. Framley parsonage. 3 vols. London. LE.17.29 [RB] 9 …
From J. B. Innes 20 October 1869
Summary
Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.
Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6948 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s paper on CD. Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage. …
- … in acquiring a part of the land for a parsonage (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from …
- … on Powell’s attempts to raise money for a parsonage, see the letter from John Lubbock, 20 …
- … the rash act he will surely build a parsonage £ 200 ready & buy land £ 700 from Eccles …
From J. B. Innes 29 November 1880
Summary
Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To J. B. Innes 18 October 1869
Summary
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6942 |
From John Lubbock 20 July [1869]
Summary
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6838 |
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- … dictionary ). The lack of a suitable parsonage was cited by John Brodie Innes as the …
- … instituted in 1850 gave grants for new parsonages. Queen Anne’s Bounty was a fund that …
From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5819 |
From John Brodie Innes 15 October 1869
Summary
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6939 |
From J. B. Innes 4 September [1863]
Summary
Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].
Family news.
Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4290 |
From Frederick Watkins [18 September 1831]
Summary
Rejoices in CD’s appointment and predicts he will rank with Candolle, Henslow, and Linnaeus.
Recounts their past pleasures and gives news of friends, who are scattering fast.
| Author: | Frederick Watkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-130 |
From W. D. Fox 1 November 1834
Summary
WDF sends news of his activities and of his family.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-261 |
To W. D. Fox [15 March 1829]
Summary
His routine days at Cambridge.
Entomology stopped for the present.
His reading, gambling, and parties. News of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-59 |
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- … Recollect: that Deo Volente whether your Parsonage boast of a roof or not I shall pay you …
From George Henslow 22 November 1869
Summary
Observations on fertilisation of Lapageria rosea by E. G. Henderson, florist of St John’s Wood.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7004 |
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- … S t John’s Parsonage | S t John’s Wood Nov. 22 /69 Dear Sir M r Henderson Jun r . …
To Caroline Darwin 2–6 April 1832
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 2–6 Apr 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-164 |
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- … a letter from Charlotte, talking of parsonages in pretty countries & other celestial …
- … this pace I have no chance for the parsonage: I direct of course to you as Miss Darwin. — …
From George Henslow [after 22 February 1869]
Summary
Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6522 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … S. Johns Parsonage | S. Johns wood | N.W. Dear M r Darwin, I send you a “case” which I …
From George Henslow 25 September 1869
Summary
Thanks for a paper on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6909 |
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- … S t John’s Parsonage | S t John’s Wood Sep 25 /69 Dear M r Darwin. Many thanks for the …
From George Henslow 20 March 1868
Summary
Asks for CD’s "candid criticisms" of his paper [on Variation].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6029 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … S t John’s Parsonage | S t Johnswood | N.W. March 20/68 My dear Sir May I venture to ask …
From H. M. Wilkinson 15 September 1874
Summary
Utricularia has broken into pieces and appears to be decaying.
| Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 91–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9640 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bisterne | Parsonage | Ringwood Dear Professor Darwin I have been down this afternoon to …
From H. M. Wilkinson 5 August 1874
Summary
Reports his observations of Utricularia [in their natural state] as CD requested.
| Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9586 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bisterne | Parsonage | Ringwood Dear Professor Darwin. I and a young man named Corbin who …
From Fanny Myddelton Biddulph [c. 21 October 1833]
Summary
Shropshire news of relatives and friends.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 21 Oct 1833] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-221 |
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- … quietly with the little Wife in the little Parsonage !! News I have little to tell you, …
| letter | (44) |
| bibliography | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Innes, J. B. | (7) |
| Henslow, George | (6) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Innes, J. B. | (9) |
| Henslow, George | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
Natural selections: a longer read in Commentary
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … ‘I find I steadily have a distant prospect of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even …
- … last letter that you still look forward to the horrid little parsonage in the desert. I was …
- … of a resident curate and the maintenance of a local parsonage. The right to appoint was known as an …
- … system. The living was comparatively small, and the local parsonage had been sold. In fact, some …
- … had property of his own in the village, and did not need a parsonage. When he left the village for …
- … the unsuccessful attempts to arrange the construction of a parsonage, and with Innes’s approval the …
