From Anthony Rich 13 June 1881
Summary
The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13202 |
To Anthony Rich 4 February 1882
Summary
Exchanges news on health.
Thanks AR for his worm observations.
George Darwin’s work is attracting attention; he intends to try for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge. Adds other news of George and of CD’s sons Leonard and William.
CD has finished his microscopic work and has only to write up two papers for the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anthony Rich |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A44–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13659 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, 8 June [1881] ). For George’s recent work on the viscous state of the earth and tides, see, for example, G. H. …
- … 1881, p. 589; Cambridge University calendar 1882). George arrived in Jamaica on 15 February 1882 (letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. …
- … 1881, Challis did not die until December 1882 ( ODNB ; see Correspondence vol. 29, letter from G. H. Darwin, …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. …
- … Darwin had been praised as the ‘discoverer of tidal evolution’ by Robert Stawell Ball in a lecture, the text of which appeared in Nature , 24 November 1881 ( Ball 1881 , p. 81; see also Correspondence vol. 29, letter to G. H. …
From Anthony Rich 9 February 1881
Summary
Contemptuous of Samuel Butler.
Has read that Huxley will be Inspector of Fisheries.
When CD visits in spring, he will acquaint him with legalities of Worthing house.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13046 |
From Anthony Rich 2 September [1881]
Summary
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13314 |
From Anthony Rich 7 March 1880
Summary
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12524 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/320/22/40)). The story appeared in a letter from Charles Dickens (see Dickens 1880–2 , 2: 61). George Howard Darwin went to Davos, a well-known spa town, from 21 January to 13 February 1880 to visit John Ferguson McLennan , who was suffering from consumption; George visited Rich and William Erasmus Darwin at Bassett, Southampton, before setting off ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), letter from Elizabeth Darwin to Ida Darwin, 15 January [1880] (DAR 258: 564), and letter from Elizabeth Darwin to G. H. …
From Anthony Rich 13 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13397 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1881. Ireland and the Land Act. Nineteenth Century 10: 473–93. Earthworms : The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Rich, Anthony | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Rich, Anthony |
