To Caroline Wedgwood 20 September [1881]
Summary
Division of CW’s share [of E. A. Darwin’s estate]. Investment advice.
Recounts his memories of their mother and of her death. Remembers "her black velvet gown and her work table and the death scene", but cannot remember her face. Remembers that Caroline "always acted like a mother" to him and Catherine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Caroline Wedgwood, Caroline …
- … To Caroline Wedgwood 20 September [1881] …
- … Down 20 Sept [1881] Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood …
- … of his personal estate to his sister Caroline Wedgwood ; she evidently wished her share …
- … to go to her daughters Sophy Wedgwood , Lucy Caroline Harrison , and Margaret Susan …
To L. C. Harrison 18 October [1881]
Summary
Can think of no suggestion to send to Mrs Forsyth. "The best plan is to read, think and speculate and then some suggestion or doubt will occur which can be determined or verified out of observation."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1881] |
| Classmark: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13414 |
From W. H. Goodwin 27 May 1881
Summary
Requests CD’s autograph.
WHG grew up within 200 yards of "The Mount" [Darwin residence] in Shrewsbury.
| Author: | William Henry Goodwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13177 |
From G. H. Darwin 28 August 1881
Summary
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13301 |
To the Darwin children 16 September 1881
Summary
A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340 |
From F. G. M. Powell 3 December 1881
Summary
Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.
| Author: | Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13528 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 October 1881]
Summary
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13340G |
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 |
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield [11 June 1881]
Summary
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
| Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [11 June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12960 |
From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
From John Price 17 September 1881
Summary
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood , were particularly close to Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit : he fell lamented by many good men (Latin). Price was quoting from Horace’s Odes 1: 24. CD had toured North Wales with Nathan Hubbersty in mid-June 1826 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (DAR 158)). Price had hoped to join them, but was so severely ill that he had to return to his parental home in Wales to be nursed by his mother (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from John Price, [July 1826] ). Hubbersty died in October 1881; his wife was Eliza Caroline …
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Forster, L. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
