From Henry Johnson 12 January [1872?]
Summary
Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419 |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [after August 1872?]
Summary
Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Aug 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13795 |
To W. E. Darwin 23 [February 1872 – October 1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13800 |
From M. I. Snow 29 [November 1872 or later]
Summary
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
Author: | Maria Isabella Snow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 [Nov 1872 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13842 |
From ? [1872–5?]
Summary
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1872 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13888 |
From Francis Galton [before 28 March 1872]
Summary
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4730 |
From William Bowman [before 25 January 1872]
Summary
Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.
Mentions belief in CD’s views.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Jan 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5338 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 August 1872]
Summary
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.3: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5556 |
From L. C. Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin [7 March 1872 or later]
Summary
P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1872 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127 |
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 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
From ? [1872–4]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1872–4] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7424 |
To Arthur Hough 15 January [1872–4]
Summary
His thanks for the curious photograph. Since he has similar ones he will not "rob" AH of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Hough |
Date: | 15 Jan [1872-4] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Origin 5th ed. Strong Room E 920 D1 (4)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7442A |
From W. E. Darwin [29 February 1872]
Summary
Amount of clay present in certain chalk samples.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Feb 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7469 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 April [1872]
Summary
Does not know Dr Mahoney.
Thanks CD for offer of photographs.
His mother’s health is no worse.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7729A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 [December 1872]
Summary
JDH Should do as he sees fit about proposing him [John Scott] [for fellowship of the Linnean Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 [Dec 1872] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1086) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8049F |
To John Lubbock [after 21 March 1872]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [after 21 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8128 |
From James Paget [1872]
Summary
"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1872] |
Classmark: | S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8130 |
To ? [1872 or later?]
Summary
Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1872 or later?] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8135F |
Darwin, C. R. | (272) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
Reade, W. W. | (15) |
Darwin, C. R. | (338) |
Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
Cooke, R. F. | (16) |
John Murray | (16) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (610) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Cooke, R. F. | (37) |
John Murray | (37) |
Galton, Francis | (23) |