To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 January 1881
Summary
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13027 |
To W. E. Darwin 31 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13034 |
To W. E. Darwin [27 February 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13035 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 February [1881]
Summary
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13036 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 February [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13037 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 February [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13042 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 May [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13144 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 May [1881]
Summary
Discusses his investments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 20 May [1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.590) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13167 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 August [1881]
Summary
Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13274 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 September [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13334 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 October 1881
Summary
[Empty cover.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340F |
To the Darwin children 3 January 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12972 |
To the Darwin children 16 September 1881
Summary
A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 16 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340 |
To the Darwin children 20 December 1881
Summary
Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 20 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR (CD library—Index Kewensis tom. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13570 |
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