From Francis Darwin to T. W. Higginson [before 24 May 1878]
Summary
Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Date: | [before 24 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11523F |
From Francis Galton 24 May 1878
Summary
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105A: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11526 |
From William Martindale to Francis Darwin 24 May 1878
Summary
WM, a pharmaceutical chemist, sends Stoddard’s pure sea-salts.
Bolton, the chemist FD mentioned, is dead and his books were probably destroyed. His successor, Linford, went bankrupt.
| Author: | William Martindale |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11527 |
From M. C. Stanley 24 May 1878
Summary
Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11528 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Martindale, William | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
