To W. E. Darwin 5 [November 1858]
Summary
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2353 |
To W. D. Fox 6 July [1858]
Summary
The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2304 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin took Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in Hartfield on …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwoods & thence to the sea; but where is our puzzle. We should much like S. side of the Isle of Wight; but it is indispensable on account of Etty that the House sh d be very near the sea, & I fear such does not occur on account of cliffs. — Sh d . you know anything on this head, will you let me have a line; but do not otherwise trouble yourself to write. My dear Fox, with cordial thanks for all your affection. Ever yours | C. Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
To W. D. Fox 2 July [1858]
Summary
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 2 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2300 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood, Emma Darwin’s sister, had arrived at Down House on 25 June 1858. She …
- … Darwin died of scarlet fever on 28 June 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Fox, having experienced the death of several children in his own household from scarlet fever, had evidently advised CD to move his children out of danger as soon as possible ( Correspondence vol. 5, letters to W. D. Fox, 17 July [1853] , and 29 [July 1853] ). Sarah Elizabeth ( …
To W. E. Darwin [9 December 1858]
Summary
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A18, A25–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2379 |
To W. E. Darwin 6 October [1858]
Summary
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2334 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … reads: ‘came to London with Lizzie’. Elizabeth Darwin had been unwell during September ( …
- … Darwin to William. In February 1859, she wrote, ‘Mrs Peters’ mother is dead so I think they will go as they are very much in debt in the village’ (DAR 210.6). They are not listed in the Post Office directory of the six home counties 1859. Emma reported in 1860 that the Peters family had moved back to Down ‘looking as impudent as ever’ (DAR 219.1: 32); in the 1861 census the family comprised Elizabeth …
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]
Summary
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2335 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 [May 1858]
Summary
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2273 |
From W. D. Fox 11 June [1858]
Summary
Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.
Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7815 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … CD and Emma Darwin had joined their children at Sarah Elizabeth ( …
- … Elizabeth) Wedgwood’s home on 9 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The letters have not been found. Alfred Russel Wallace mentioned having received letters from CD and Hooker in a letter to his mother, dated 6 October 1858 ( Marchant 1916 , 1: 71). An extract from that letter is given in Wallace 1905 , 1: 365: I have received letters from Mr. Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Summary
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
