From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
From Francis Darwin [before 8 December 1875]
Summary
Sends Linnean papers.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 8 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10287F |
From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515H |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
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
Summary
Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.
| 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 Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880]
Summary
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379F |
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 |
From Horace Darwin 9 and 12 September 1880
Summary
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 and 12 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12709 |
From Francis Darwin [after 17 June 1881]
Summary
Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 17 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208G |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 August 1872]
Summary
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.3: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5556 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 January 1870]
Summary
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520F |
From Francis Darwin [after 18 October 1870]
Summary
Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 18 Oct 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7346F |
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