To W. E. Darwin [before 29 October 1857]
Summary
Reports progress of work on the new rooms [at Down].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2135 |
CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | unknown |
| Date: | July 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Summary
Writes of the extension to Down House.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To [W. E. Darwin] [1857?]
Summary
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1857?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2029 |
To W. E. Darwin [November 1857]
Summary
Is trying to find a tutor for WED.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2095 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Summary
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, W. E. …
- … r . Hooker comes here on Saturday next for a day or two. The Building goes on slowly: the scaffolding is down & outside plaistered & now they are plaistering inside, but the windows are not in yet. Several of the children are not very brisk & I am poorly myself; so that the House is ready to sing miserere. Farewell my dear old fellow: I am sorry that you cannot “grind” at present:—progress in life mainly depends on the great art of grinding; there can be no doubt of that. Your affect | C. Darwin …
To J. S. Henslow 10 August [1857]
Summary
Delighted that JSH is coming to Down. Sends correct train time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2132 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 October [1857]
Summary
JSH’s Myosotis is beginning to sport. Asks whether some features are not odd.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2153 |
To George Bentham 18 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2189 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 May [1857]
Summary
Discusses family health and affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2091 |
To Henry Doubleday [before 5 February 1857]
Summary
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
| Date: | [before 5 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2032 |
To Henry Doubleday 8 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | Dr Heather Whitney (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037F |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 25 July 1857]
Summary
CD has saved an enormous amount of labour since he replaced the chain on his deep well with wire rope. He now asks readers whether they have had experience of saving on the weight of the bucket by using some material other than oak.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 25 July 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 25 July 1857, p. 518 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2127 |
To Robert Patterson 12 November [1857]
Summary
The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | W. E. Praeger 1935, p. 714 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2168 |
To John Higgins 9 December 1857
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1857 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181F |
To John Lubbock 11 August [1857]
Summary
Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.
Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2481 |
To John Lubbock 25 January [1857]
Summary
Dining with the Lubbocks.
JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3413 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 June 1857]
Summary
Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 13 June 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2105 |
To George Bentham 15 December [1857]
Summary
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Summary
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| Lubbock, John | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (5) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (4) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
| Sharpey, William | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Dana, J. D. | (2) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
| Edmondston, Laurence | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Patterson, Robert | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum | (1) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Buckman, James | (1) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Mueller, Ferdinand von | (1) |
| Sabine, Edward | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| unknown | (1) |
