To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Thanks him for curare.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7837 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Foster, Michael …
- … To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871] …
- … Robert Darwin London Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead 29 [June 1871] Michael Foster …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . …
- … See letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. …
- … 4, and letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . CD spent most of August 1871 at …
From Michael Foster 20 September 1871
Summary
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7957 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 20 September 1871 …
- … DAR 164: 164 Michael Foster Huntingdon 20 Sept 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] . …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. Foster was praelector in …
- … of physiology in 1883 ( ODNB ). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 1. …
From Michael Foster 25 June 1871
Summary
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7831 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 25 June 1871 …
- … DAR 164: 163 Michael Foster Blackheath 25 June 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Foster . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about four miles north …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 6 June [1871] . Foster may refer to the New Oxford and …
- … see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Foster refers to Michael George Foster and Mercy Elizabeth …
To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Foster, Michael …
- … To Michael Foster 6 June [1871] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.419) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 June [1871] Michael Foster …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . …
- … See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . No record of Foster’s visiting has been …
From Michael Foster [26 June 1871]
Summary
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7834 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster [26 June 1871] …
- … DAR 58.1: 141–2 Michael Foster Blackheath [26 June 1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letters to Michael Foster , 26 June [1871] and 29 [June 1871] . In …
- … 26 June was a Monday. See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 3. Urari is an …
- … one (Roman numeral). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. ‘Strychnia’ …
- … on Drosera rotundifolia (see letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4). …
To Michael Foster 26 June [1871]
Summary
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 26 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7832 |
To Michael Foster 16 April 1871
Summary
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689G |
From Michael Foster 4 June [1871]
Summary
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7800 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 4 June [1871] …
- … DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 Michael Foster Trinity College, Cambridge 4 June [1871] …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . For …
- … see the enclosure to the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . Foster probably …
To [W. W. Baxter?] [early July 1871]
Summary
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [early July 1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9524 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD had obtained the curare from Michael Foster , who had two stocks of the poison, one of …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] ). The Darwins stayed …
- … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] , …
- … and the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] ( Correspondence vol. 19). The recipient …
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
Document type
| letter | (11) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Foster, Michael | (8) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
