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From D. F. Nevill   2 July [1875]

Summary

Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would like to visit again before August.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10039

From D. F. Nevill   13 [July 1875]

Summary

Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];

would like an autograph to put in it.

Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 [July 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10063

From Dorothy Frances Nevill   [before 22 January 1862]

Summary

Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.

Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.

Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 22 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3402

From D. F. Nevill   [before 22 January 1862]

Summary

Thanks for promise of photograph.

Has no melastomads in bloom.

Describes sensitive anthers of Cynorchis.

Thanks CD for "your little pamphlet".

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 22 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3408

From D. F. Nevill   [c. 14 March 1862]

Summary

Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.

When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 14 Mar 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 172.1: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3431

From D. F. Nevill   [16? May 1862]

Summary

Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [16? May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 172.1: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3552

From D. F. Nevill   26 [December 1875?]

Summary

Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 [Dec 1875?]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8133

From D. F. Nevill   17 [April 1875]

Summary

Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 [Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8135

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

From D. F. Nevill   14 [February 1875]

Summary

Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 [Feb 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9854

To D. F. Nevill   15 July [1875]

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Summary

Sends his autograph

and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].

Would be pleased to see DN at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  15 July [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10068

To D. F. Nevill   15 January 1877

Summary

Thanks DN for references.

The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  15 Jan 1877
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10789

To D. F. Nevill   23 December 1880

Summary

CD is familiar with cases of prepotency that are so strong that a cross has no effect.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  23 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12933

To D. F. Nevill   29 November 1881

Summary

Has much pleasure in signing the little book; is glad his book on earthworms interested her.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  29 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Daniel Plunkett (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13521

To Dorothy Fanny Nevill   12 November [1861]

Summary

Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  12 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.270)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3316
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