From L. C. Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin [7 March 1872 or later]
Summary
P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1872 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8365 |
To B. J. Sulivan 24 January 1872
Summary
Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8178 |
To J. V. Carus 27 October [1872]
Summary
Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 96–97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8580 |
To S. H. Haliburton 1 November [1872]
Summary
Sends a copy of Expression
and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8591 |
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
Summary
Asks CD for seeds of some plants.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8390 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Myosotis in Variation 2: 128. Emma Darwin’s sister, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , was a …
- … neighbour of the Darwins in Down; Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood was one of their nieces. …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood , were contemplating moving out of London; they settled at Ravensbourne, Kent. Effie married Farrer as his second wife in 1873; Farrer’ s daughter, Emma Cecilia Farrer (Ida), married Horace Darwin …
From Ernst Haeckel 1 March 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.
Has declined chair at Strasbourg.
Describes research on calcareous sponges.
Criticises Pangenesis.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8232 |
To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8506 |
To H. E. Litchfield 25 July 1872
Summary
Thanks for her pains over corrections [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 25 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8427 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … ODNB ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood and ‘ …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood , Frances’s daughter, stayed at Down from 29 to 31 July 1872; Camilla, probably Camilla Ludwig , also arrived on Monday 29 July and stayed until 10 August; and ‘Eupha’, Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood , was at Down on 2 August 1872. Emma Darwin …
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1872
Summary
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8136 |
To Charles Lyell 22 May [1872]
Summary
Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8345 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 19 October 1872
Summary
On his mother’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8565 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 9 December [1872]
Summary
Charles Landseer would like to know whether dogs have orbicular muscles.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B124–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8666 |
To Charles Lyell 12 July [1872]
Summary
Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 12 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8405 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 November [1872]
Summary
Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8636 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin (his daughter) had received rents as part of her marriage settlement, was bought by Godfrey, Clement Francis, and Laurence Wedgwood (who had been renting it) for £17,000 (Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1983, pp. 36, 304; CD’s Investment book (Down House MS)). In his Account books–banking account (Down House MS), CD recorded a payment of £1833 6 s. 8 d. on 20 November 1872, ‘From sale of Etruria’. Jos: Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma’s brother. F: Frances Emma Elizabeth …
| letter | (16) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (2) |
