From John Price 5 March 1868
Summary
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5982 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Price, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Price 5 March 1868 …
- … DAR 174: 74 John Price Chester 5 Mar 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7. Price, John. 1863– …
- … Price’s remains; præhumous, or during life. 12 pts. London: Virtue, Brothers & Co. Roach, John. …
Price, John. 1863–4. Old Price’s remains; præhumous, or during life. 12 pts. London: Virtue, Brothers & Co.
Price, John. [1875?] Llandudno and how to enjoy it: being a handy guide to the town and neighbourhood. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Llandudno: B. Woodcock.
From E. A. Darwin 14 December [1862?]
Summary
Describes a box which has come for CD.
Asks for John Price’s address.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3859 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 27 July 1874]
Summary
Has been examining Utricularia minor. Same essential structure but catches smaller Entomostraca. One bladder had 24, another 20, and another 15 Entomostraca. "What slaughter! We must make out the functions of the beast––".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9565A |
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
Lucas, Peter. 2002b. Jigsaw with pieces missing: Charles Darwin with John Price at Bodnant, the walking tour of 1826 and the expeditions of 1827. Archives of Natural History 29: 359–70.
To David Thomas Ansted 25 November [1846]
Summary
Encloses a set of proof sheets of the fossil shells in South America.
Also encloses some specimen sheets by G. B. Sowerby to disseminate as an advertisement.
Asks that E. A. Darwin’s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Hans A. O. Baumann (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata. …
- … have not been identified, although John Price, who had an interest in natural history, had …
- … John Morris’s Catalogue of British fossils (Morris 1843) for visitors to the Geological Society’s collections (Woodward 1907, p. 159). George Brettingham Sowerby drew the illustrations of fossil shells for South America . The papers have not been identified. Mr Price …
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Summary
Would like Price’s address.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
Price, Elis (1839–90)
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1839–90 Clergyman. Son of CD’s friend John Price. Attended Kings College, London. Ordained …
- … Price) England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 December 2019) Crockford’s clerical directory 1885 Bibliography Crockford’s clerical directory : The clerical directory, a biographical and statistical book of reference for facts relating to the clergy and the church. Crockford’s clerical directory etc. London: John …
To [Susan? Darwin] [1843 – 8 March 1846]
Summary
Reports events at Down.
The "atrocious doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [1843 – 8 Mar 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13798 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence. …
- … had been altered, and ordered Mr. Price’s labourers off Sir John’s land, and I believe the …
- … or doubtful boundary; and Sir John to oblige Mr. Price sent Laslett to mark out and agree …
- … Mr. Price’s new fence was to be, they were privately moved, so as to bend into Sir John’s …
From E. A. Darwin [10 January 1825]
Summary
Saw a mineral salesman, but he had nothing CD does not already have.
EAD has a piece of petrified sponge and some curious coal that John Price pulled out of his fire.
Griffith’s Animal kingdom [Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom … with additional descriptions of species by Edward Griffith (1827–35)] just being published. He is sure CD would like it.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 Jan 1825] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9 |
From H. M. Wilkinson 5 August 1874
Summary
Reports his observations of Utricularia [in their natural state] as CD requested.
| Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 84–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9586 |
To E. A. Darwin 21 December 1828
Summary
Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.
News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1828 |
| Classmark: | Copy |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-53 |
From H. N. Moseley 27 November 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for support in his election as Linacre Professor at Oxford.
J. Y. Buchanan, of the Challenger, says deep-sea red mud is fine because, like CD’s vegetable mould, it has been digested by worms and echinoderms.
Visited by John MacNeile Price, the son of CD’s friend from Chile, Mr Price; the son is now Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13516 |
From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
| Author: | John Wood Warter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
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