From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … to Southampton. Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma’s sister, lived in Down. The letters to her have …
- … letter. Bernard Darwin’s fifth tooth was ‘nearly through’ on 23 July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1920b , p. 6), so this letter must have been written a month or two earlier, from the reference to Bernard’s first two teeth. CD and Emma Darwin were away from home from 8 June until 4 July, visiting first Caroline Sarah and Josiah Wedgwood …
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877]
Summary
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 27–8 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10973 |
To T. H. Farrer 27 August [1877]
Summary
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11114 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Addressee
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
