To R. B. Litchfield 2 February 1880
Summary
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12453 |
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- … Darwin (see letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] ). Letter from H.E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] , enclosure 1. Litchfield had composed an imaginary reply by Butler to CD’s draft letter to the Athenæum ; see letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February 1880 and enclosure. Emma Darwin , Leonard Darwin , and Francis …
To Francis Darwin 16 and 17 May 1881
Summary
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 and 17 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13159 |
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- … Darwin 's maid, had been taken ill at the beginning of May ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3 May 1881] ; DAR 219.9: 263). John Ferguson McLennan died at Hayes Common, Kent, on 16 June 1881 ( ODNB ); George had visited him in Davos, Switzerland, in 1880 ( letter from Elizabeth Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 3 February 1880 ; DAR 251: 1412). See letter from Francis …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
