From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761G |
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Summary
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
From Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
From Francis Darwin [11 October 1873]
Summary
Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller’s microscope in Paris.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9095F |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
From Francis Darwin [1875?]
Summary
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1875?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9791F |
To Francis Darwin [20? July 1878]
Summary
Horace Darwin suggests FD water the Porlieria copiously to see whether it will keep awake all day.
[Possibly P.S. to 11620.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [20? July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11621 |
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 Francis Darwin [9 November 1881]
Summary
Tells some of his observations on root cells. Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Julius von Wiesner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13065 |
To Francis Darwin [July 1874 – September 1876]
Summary
Has had a nice stay with William, who is charming but rather languid and cannot read to himself.
Love to Amy [Darwin] and Mrs Ruck.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1874–Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523A |
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 E. A. Darwin [1873–81]
Summary
Notes on the shoveller, taken from John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain [1862–73].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873–81] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: 47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13790 |
From G. R. Gray 8 April 1868
Summary
Difference between sexes of Ibis rubra; change in plumage.
| Author: | George Robert Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6105 |
From Catherine Darwin 8 July 1841
Summary
Describes the appearance and occurrence of imperfect flowers of "Hex.[?] Trigynia".
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1841 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-603 |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
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