To W. E. Darwin 19 February [1881]
Summary
Uncle Erasmus is ill.
Thanks WED for his trouble about the cottages.
He has signed the note to Higgins.
CD has used WED’s Rhododendron case in Earthworms [p. 69].
Is using paper triangles in experiments on intelligence of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 August 1881
Summary
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13301 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 25 October 1881]
Summary
Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12961 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 November 1881
Summary
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Snow, & Bloxam (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [29 August 1881]) . William and Sara Darwin …
- … 1881 (DAR 219.9: 279)). George was planning to apply for the position of Plumian Professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy at Cambridge University , in the event of James Challis ’s death (see letter from G. H. Darwin, …
From Anne Marsh-Caldwell 27 November [1866]
Summary
Writing for Mr Corbet, she asks what diet has helped in the treatment of CD’s illness.
| Author: | Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5286 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 26 August 1881]
Summary
The merchants suggest that CD keep the wine and return it if more is corked.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 Aug 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13309 |
From Anthony Rich 2 September [1881]
Summary
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13314 |
To John Price 3 September [1881]
Summary
Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.
Cannot answer question about dotterels.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13315 |
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
From J. W. Judd 8 January 1882
Summary
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13604 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1881 , pp. 81, 102–4); he drew partly on George Howard Darwin ’s recent work on tidal theory ( G. H. …
- … G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): …
- … G. H. Darwin 1878c , p. 213). Edward Hull ’s response to Ball was published in Nature , 22 December 1881, …
- … G. H. Darwin 1882 ); he criticised some of Ball’s speculations, especially on tidal waves of over 600 feet, and added that his own estimates of tides two or three times those of the present were probably excessive. See Ball 1881 , …
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
To Albert Günther 19 December 1881
Summary
Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13569 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 November 1880
Summary
Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].
Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.
Is in despair about his astronomy.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12828 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 January 1881
Summary
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13027 |
To W. M. Hacon 11 September 1881
Summary
Wishes to draw up a new will; outlines the changes to be made in the provisions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13330 |
From W. E. Darwin [27 February 1882]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347F |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 January [1882]
Summary
Trying to get some Darwinians into the Institut de France.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13624 |
From G. H. Darwin 4 March 1880
Summary
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12510 |
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