From D F. Nevill 2 September [1874]
Summary
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9620 |
From D. F. Nevill 8 [September 1874]
Summary
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9628 |
From D. F. Nevill [11 September 1874]
Summary
Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9633 |
From D. F. Nevill 16 [September 1874]
Summary
CD should remove packing moss, and he will find bladders in foot-stalks of Utricularia DN sent.
Experimenting on insectivorous plants.
Implores CD to visit.
Thanks for photograph.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 [Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9642 |
From D. F. Nevill 22 [September 1874]
Summary
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9652 |
From D. F. Nevill 26 [December 1874]
Summary
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Dec 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9782 |
| letter | (6) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (6) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Nevill, D. F. | |
| Walpole, D. F. | (6) |
