To Sara Darwin [1 March 1878]
Summary
Hopes to visit [Sara and William] later in the year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11392 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Darwin, Sara …
- … To Sara Darwin [1 March 1878] …
- … Sedgwick/Sara Darwin …
- … The only Friday in this period was 1 March. Sara Darwin ’s letter has not been found. …
- … DAR 210.6: 150 Charles Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 4 [1 Mar 1878] Sara …
- … Darwin, C. R. Sedgwick, Sara …
- … Clark was CD’s physician. Sara and William Erasmus Darwin were married on 29 November …
- … Sara I thank you warmly for your most kind & affectionate note. Emma did think of offering ourselves to you, but I dreaded the length of the journey & I wished to see D r . Clark. — I am somewhat better but much to boast of. — At some future time we hope to come to you, & our visits to William have been to me the greatest pleasure in the year, & now we shall have the additional pleasure of seeing you there. Yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin …
From John Simon 25 February 1878
Summary
Has sent CD a paper partly relating to Dr Creighton’s curious observations ["Some points of science and practice concerning cancer", Br. Med. J. (1878) pt 1: 219–24].
| Author: | John Simon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11374 |
To Karl von Scherzer 26 April 1878
Summary
Congratulates correspondent on appointment to important post.
Leaving tomorrow for visit [with William Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11485 |
From W. E. Darwin 10 July [1878]
Summary
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11597F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … museum in 1898. ( ANB . ) William and Sara Darwin sailed for the US on 14 September 1878 ( …
- … Down on 9 July 1878, when Sara and William Erasmus Darwin were also there; William left …
- … 2017)). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Sara and William arrived in Down on 5 …
- … at Down only I wish Sara had been brisk | Your affect son | W. E. Darwin I send a pamphlet …
To W. E. Darwin 12 December [1878]
Summary
Writes of Anthony Rich’s bequest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11786 |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
To T. H. Farrer 7 May [1878]
Summary
Has received Ledum with its captured flies.
"At present I care for nothing in this wide world except the biology of seedling plants."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 7 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11495 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 or 4 March 1878]
Summary
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 or 4 Mar 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 453–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11390 |
To Francis Darwin 7 [July 1878]
Summary
Describes sleep movements in Porlieria and his experiments on movements of radicles.
Thalia flowers have interesting mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 [July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11595 |
From W. E. Darwin 13 [December 1878]
Summary
Surprised and delighted by Mr Rich’s bequest as it will greatly increase his income. Intends to leave money to the Royal Society to contribute to science. Houses in London are a good investment even in times that are nervous for bankers.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Dec 1878] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11790F |
To S. B. J. Skertchly 2 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter. Comments on SBJS’s research on Palaeolithic flint tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 480 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11394 |
From Francis Darwin [12 May 1878]
Summary
Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504F |
To Francis Darwin [11 May 1878]
Summary
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [11 May 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11504 |
To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
From W. D. Fox 12 February [1878]
Summary
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11355 |
From Francis Darwin [12 September 1878]
Summary
He has been working hard at Kew for two days.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Sept 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11690F |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
From W. D. Fox 22 July [1878]
Summary
Thanks CD for his condolences. Reminisces about their youth.
On the death of his naturalist friend, W. C. Hewitson.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11625 |
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