To G. H. Darwin 7 [July 1879]
Summary
Francis wants a copy of a book on "Shakespeare’s merry tales" to present to a friend in Würzburg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 7 [July 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12135 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 25 February 1879]
Summary
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [after 25 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10342 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … correspondent of CD’s (see letter from Francis Darwin, [ c. 25 February 1879] ). Trifolium …
- … letter of 25 February [1879] that he was forwarding the letter to George. Francis Darwin …
- … letter to the Darwin children, 21 February 1879 , which was sent first to William Erasmus Darwin , to be forwarded to George and Francis. …
To G. H. Darwin 12 July 1879
Summary
CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.
Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 87; unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12149 |
From G. H. Darwin 3 March 1879
Summary
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11914 |
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to CD’s father, Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848) , is in DAR 227.6: 81. The article in the Monthly Magazine claimed that Erasmus Darwin’s death had been hastened by ‘a violent fit of passion’ directed towards a servant (Anon. 1802, p. 458). In the draft, but not the published version, of Erasmus Darwin , CD stated that this had been denied by Erasmus’s medical attendants, Francis …
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Summary
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
| 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: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … were in Algiers; see letter from Francis Darwin, [ c. 25 February 1879]. …
- … letter from Frederick Ransome, 7 March 1864 , and Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Frederick Ransome, 7 February 1866 ). George Howard and Francis Darwin …
- … letter from Anthony Rich, 10 December 1878 . Call: a stock-market term for an option to buy assets at an agreed price on or before a particular date ( OED ). An entry in CD’s Investment Book (Down House MS) for 1879, p. 130, reads ‘Feb. Lancaster & Carlisle shares converted partly into ordinary stock....651 6 Feb. 22 purchased 484 stock at 144 1 4 with expenses 706.2.7 ordinary stock....48 4 [Total] 800 0’. CD’s daughters were Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Elizabeth Darwin ; his sons were William Erasmus , George Howard , Francis , …
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| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
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| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
