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 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 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 [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880]
Summary
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 12 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12807F |
From A. R. Wallace 21 November 1880
Summary
Thanks for book [Movement in plants].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12835 |
From W. R. Browne 21 December 1880
Summary
Regrets CD is unable to attend proposed conference [see 12918]. Would like his opinion on why it is not desirable.
| Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12930 |
From Richard Litchfield 1 February 1880
Summary
Advises against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
| Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B72–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12447 |
To Athenæum 24 January 1880
Summary
[Draft letter that was never sent, headed "First letter disapproved by everybody" in CD’s hand.] Explains that he had, in fact, mentioned in the MS of his part of Erasmus Darwin that Krause had added to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos. During subsequent revision, this mention was accidentally omitted. [Apropos of S. Butler’s charges against CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–B101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12439 |
To ? 19 March 1880
Summary
Henry Forbes in a letter to Moseley describes herons on the Keeling Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12538F |
From A. R. Wallace 11 October 1880
Summary
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12752 |
From Horace Darwin 7 October 1880
Summary
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12742 |
From G. H. Darwin [July 1880?]
Summary
Unable to acquire pure trypsin. W. F. Kühne is probably the only man who had it. Will send an almost pure sample out of which A. S. Lea makes pancreatic ferment.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1880?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12644 |
To Horace Darwin 11 January [1880]
Summary
Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12415 |
From A. R. Carrington 15 November 1880
Summary
ARC found a frog in New Zealand; contradicts CD [in Origin, 6th ed. (1872), p. 350.]
| Author: | Alexander Randall Carrington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12822 |
To Horace Darwin 20 April [1880]
Summary
Gives advice regarding a house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12584 |
To Athenæum 1 February 1880
Summary
[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12449 |
From E. A. Darwin 8 July [1880]
Summary
Details about tithes.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12648 |
From C. C. Graham 28 March 1880
Summary
Informs CD that the letter CCG received from him has been framed to be hung in the Kentucky State House.
| Author: | Christopher Columbus Graham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12551 |
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| Torbitt, James | (31) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (27) |
| Krause, Ernst | (27) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (23) |
