skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains "Darwin, W. E. 1853"

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
Darwin and W and E and 1853 in keywords disabled_by_default
9 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To Josiah Wedgwood III   18 February 1853

thumbnail

Summary

Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:  18 Feb 1853
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1503

Matches: 1 hit

  • … the other Darwin children had mumps (see letter to W.  E. Darwin, 1 March [1853] ). These …

To W. E. Darwin   1 March [1853]

thumbnail

Summary

Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.

Writes of the benefits of reading.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  1 Mar [1853]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1639

Matches: 1 hit

To W. E. Darwin   20 May [1881]

Summary

Discusses his investments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  20 May [1881]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.590)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13167

Matches: 1 hit

  • Darwin, 4 May [1881] ). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 7 May 1881 and n. 2. The newspaper announcement has not been identified. CD’s bank was the Union Bank , Charing Cross Branch, London (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to John Higgins, 11 April [1853] ). …

From Francis Darwin   [6 July 1879]

Summary

Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 July 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12296F

Matches: 1 hit

  • 1853, is near Zermatt in the Swiss Alps. Elizabeth Darwin was on holiday in Switzerland with Mary Elizabeth Atkin ; they arrived at the hotel around 10 July 1879 (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. …

To G. H. K. Thwaites   19 May [1868]

Summary

GHKT should not take more trouble about human expression. Discusses contraction of orbicular muscles in elephants.

Asks about colour of first plumage of breeds of Ceylon fowls in which hens alone are coloured.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:  19 May [1868]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.342)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6184

Matches: 1 hit

  • W.  E.  Darwin, [15 March 1868] , and Expression , pp.  167–8. CD refers to the Zoological Gardens in Regent’s Park, London. CD also mentioned Edgar Leopold Layard’s description of the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) fowl in Variation 1: 256, citing E.  L.  Layard  1853– …

To F. J. Cohn   8 August 1877

Summary

Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  8 Aug 1877
Classmark:  Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11095

Matches: 1 hit

  • 1853 ) and ‘Ueber Pilzkeimungen’ (On mushroom germination; Hoffmann 1859 ) has been found. Agaricus muscarius is a synonym of Amanita muscaria , the fly agaric mushroom. Francis Darwin moved back into Down House after the death of his wife, Amy, in September 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. E. …

To J. D. Hooker   19 June [1861]

thumbnail

Summary

CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 June [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3190

Matches: 1 hit

  • W.  E. Darwin, [3 May 1858] ). CD refers to the Genera plantarum that Hooker and Bentham were preparing (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83). The work contains, in addition to a description of the diagnostic characters distinguishing each genus, a conspectus of the striking characters of each natural order (see Green 1914 , pp.  500–2). The third edition of John Lindley’s Vegetable kingdom was published in 1853. …

From E. A. Darwin   26 April 1853

thumbnail

Summary

Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1853
Classmark:  DAR 262.11: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1516

Matches: 1 hit

  • Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood II on the marriage of CD and Emma in 1839 are given in Correspondence vol.  2, letter from Josiah Wedgwood II and Emma Wedgwood to R.  W. Darwin, 15 November 1838 , n.  1. In CD’s Investment book (Down House MS) the Edward Muckleston mortgage, the Owen mortgage, and the Maryport and Carlisle Railway shares are listed under ‘Emma’ s trust property’. The Newcastle and Carlisle preference shares are listed as CD’s property, but on 1 May 1853 they were transferred to E.   …

To Asa Gray   [3–]4 September [1862]

Summary

Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].

Trimorphism in Lythrum.

Bee behaviour.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  [3–]4 Sept [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3710

Matches: 1 hit

  • 1853 , pp.  574–5. Although CD’s copy of John Lindley’s Vegetable kingdom has not been found, this is the edition of the work listed in CD’s Library catalogue (DAR 240), and frequently referred to in Orchids. See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] and n.  14. See letter to John Lubbock, [3 September 1862] , and letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [ …