From Ernst Krause 24 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for sketch of Erasmus Darwin by John Dowson [see Erasmus Darwin, p. iv]; would like to incorporate this information into MS. Previous biographers of Erasmus Darwin had insufficient knowledge of what appeared in his works.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11949 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 March 1879
Summary
Wants a Cassia identified
and several plants and seeds for experimental purposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 166–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11950 |
To C. M. C. Darwin 24 March 1879
Summary
Can CMCD provide a photograph of Elston, the birthplace of Erasmus Darwin, with permission to have it reproduced in Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11950F |
From L. A. Errera 25 March 1879
Summary
Sends his photograph as requested.
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11951 |
From Frederick King 25 March 1879
Summary
Cattle and sheep varieties removed from their native soils degenerate rapidly.
Author: | Frederick King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11952 |
From E. A. Wheler 25 March 1879
Summary
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11953 |
From E. S. Galton 25 March 1879
Summary
Notes and a copy of a letter written by ESG to John Dowson of Whitby. Expresses her opinion of the biographies of Erasmus Darwin written by Mrs Schimmelpenninck and Anna Seward.
Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11954 |
To C. S. Wedgwood 26 March 1879
Summary
Discusses information about Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 26 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11955 |
To E. A. Wheler 26 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for information and stories about Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Date: | 26 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11955F |
From C. M. C. Darwin 27 March 1879
Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 136–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11956 |
To Reginald Darwin 27 March 1879
Summary
Announces his intention to translate and preface [E. Krause’s] sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life. Asks whether RD has any documents concerning Dr Darwin or letters by him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Forum Auctions (dealers) (28 March 2019, lot 173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11957 |
To Ernst Krause 27 March 1879
Summary
CD has written to members of the family for Dr Erasmus Darwin materials and letters. Is apprehensive lest his preface and EK’s essay interfere with one another. Will confine himself to ED’s character and letters;
has begun investigating the influence he had on medical practice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36178) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11958 |
From E. A. Wheler 28 March 1879
Summary
Sends a book by her uncle, Charles Darwin [1758–78], and recounts some details of the life of her grandfather, Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11959 |
From Reginald Darwin 29 March 1879
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 146–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11960 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 29 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for FHGH’s new book; also for the list of seeds, but he does not want any at present.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 29 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11960F |
From Ernst Krause 30 March 1879
Summary
Wants to finish revision of MS on Erasmus Darwin before Dallas begins translation. Has discussed possible German edition with Carl Alberts.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11961 |
From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
From A. G. Butler 31 March 1879
Summary
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 390 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963 |
To E. A. Wheler 31 March [1879]
Summary
Requests information about a travel route used by their grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Thanks FG for his help.
CD is "now trying to find out how far the Zoonomia influenced medical practice in England".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
Date: | 31 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963A |
To Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
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Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Krause, Ernst | (4) |
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Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
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Wheler, E. A. | (4) |