From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878]
Summary
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553F |
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 Francis Darwin [before 18 October 1870]
Summary
Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345F |
From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870]
Summary
Sends list of bills.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 5 Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387G |
From Francis Darwin [before 5 December 1870]
Summary
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 5 Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387H |
From Francis Darwin [after 1871?]
Summary
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715F |
From R. S. Bartleet 15 November 1881
Summary
Has read Earthworms.
Wonders if CD has studied gnats; inquires about their apparently useless hovering over one spot for hours.
| Author: | Robert Smith Bartleet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13486 |
From Francis Darwin [15–18 September 1873]
Summary
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15–18 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156F |
From Leonard Darwin 28 November 1877
Summary
LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11256 |
From Leonard Darwin 7 January 1878
Summary
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11316 |
From Leonard Darwin 8 January 1878
Summary
Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11317 |
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
Summary
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
| Author: | Reginald Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12180 |
From Horace Darwin 4 September 1880
Summary
Observations on earthworms.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12707 |
From Leonard Darwin 12 October [1881]
Summary
Will be home on Saturday.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13395 |
From Francis Darwin [after August 1872?]
Summary
Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Aug 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13795 |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 May 1869]
Summary
Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6519F |
From Leonard Darwin [29 March 1872]
Summary
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Mar 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8260 |
From Francis Darwin [before 30 June 1872]
Summary
Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 June 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8364 |
From Francis Darwin [1873]
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713F |
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