From [?] [?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13860 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
"but most of them [verily?] Christened by myself they may be indulged with a"
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD Library-Eschwege 1832) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13861 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
[Fragmentary strip.] Discusses pigeons, Australia, Regents Park.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - Volz 1852) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13862 |
To [?] [?]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (18 December 1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864G |
To ? [?]
Summary
[Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know nothing of your private".]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | Eric Korn (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864H |
From Mary Congreve 27 October [1821]
Summary
Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.
Author: | Mary Congreve |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct [1821] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1 |
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 25 [October 1822]
Summary
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Oct 1822] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November 1822
Summary
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3 |
From E. A. Darwin 8 December 1822
Summary
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4 |
From E. A. Darwin 5 [March 1823]
Summary
More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 [Mar 1823] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5 |
From E. A. Darwin 18 May 1823
Summary
Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1823 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. June 1823] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
Author: | John Wood Warter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
From E. A. Darwin [10 January 1825]
Summary
Saw a mineral salesman, but he had nothing CD does not already have.
EAD has a piece of petrified sponge and some curious coal that John Price pulled out of his fire.
Griffith’s Animal kingdom [Griffith, Edward, et al. 1827–35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, … with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. 16 vols. London] just being published. He is sure CD would like it.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1825] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9 |
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