From Reginald Darwin 12 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12310 |
From Reginald Darwin 18 April 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11987 |
From Reginald Darwin 4 August 1879
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 160–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12180 |
From Reginald Darwin 2 April 1879
Summary
Will try to find an engraving of [Breadsall] Priory.
Offers a photograph of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s house in Derby.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11968 |
From Leonard Darwin 7 May 1879
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12035 |
From Reginald Darwin 31 May 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].
Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 156–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12072 |
From Reginald Darwin 11 July 1879
Summary
Is gratified if he has helped [with Erasmus Darwin].
Thanks for another consignment of family records.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 158–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12146 |
From Reginald Darwin 17 November 1879
Summary
Sends a book on shorthand
and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12323 |
To Francis Darwin? [1879–80?]
Summary
Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1879–80?] |
Classmark: | DAR LIB 2003/2004 (in box with A. B. Frank, Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie, 1868, and Die natürliche wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen, 1870) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11816 |
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 E. A. Darwin [8 March 1879?]
Summary
Asks CD about translation of title-page of Kosmos.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Mar 1879?] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B2, DAR 105: B110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11919 |
From Francis Darwin 3 March [1879]
Summary
Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11913F |
From Francis Darwin [6 July 1879]
Summary
Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 July 1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12296F |
To C. M. C. Darwin 6 April 1879
Summary
Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.
His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.
Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978F |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, C. M. C. …
- … c. — Since writing to you before I have made an odd discovery. I had a very large box, marked “old settlements & deeds” from my Father, & never thought it worth opening; but now I have done so, & found instead of deeds hundreds of letters from D r . Erasmus Darwin & …
To C. M. C. Darwin 15 April 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
Sends some information about R. W. Darwin’s residence at Elston; does not plan to include a portrait of him.
Asks the acreage of land at Cleatham.
Offers to send a print of the portrait of himself by W. W. Ouless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11995F |
From Reginald Darwin 9 April 1879
Summary
Has found a pamphlet of 1780 about Charles Darwin [1758–78].
RD’s sister, Violetta, has found some early verses and a MS by Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Author: | Reginald Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 152–153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11983 |
From Francis Darwin 9 July 1879
Summary
Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12142 |
From E. R. Shaw 2 December 1879
Summary
Describes bearded horses seen on island of Sark.
Author: | Edmund Rogers Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12339 |
From A. R. Leeds 4 March 1879
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Author: | Albert Ripley Leeds |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11915B |
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 |
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