From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait 22 July [1875]
Summary
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10087 |
From Francis Darwin to Horace Pearce 24 November 1876
Summary
Explains how they look after Drosera plants.
Encloses his father’s autograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Pearce |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10687F |
From Francis Darwin to the Auckland Star 4 January 1877
Summary
His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.
His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auckland Star |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Star, 1 March 1877, p. 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770F |
From Francis Darwin to Anton Stecker 17 March 1878
Summary
Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anton Stecker |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11429F |
From Francis Darwin to ? 23 August 1878
Summary
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11672 |
From Francis Darwin to Clarke Hawkshaw [before 18 April 1878]
Summary
FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).
Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw |
| Date: | [before 18 Apr 1878] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11711F |
From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause 23 October 1879
Summary
CD thanks Krause for the errata.
CD is sorry to hear that Krause’s part will not appear in the French edition, and cannot believe that C.-F. Reinwald would be influenced by antagonism to the Germans. Reinwald always gives CD a small percentage on sales, and CD had intended to pass it on to EK.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36217) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12268H |
From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause [29 October 1879]
Summary
Encloses a letter from CD to C.-F. Reinwald for EK to read, and if he approves, to send on.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1879] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36218) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12275F |
From Francis Darwin to Édouard Heckel 26 November 1880
Summary
Indications on the movement of flowers.
It is not customary to recommend someone for membership of the Royal Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12860F |
From Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause [after 10 February 1881]
Summary
CD thanks him for his congratulations and for details of letters, which he will keep with the Butlerian documents.
FD is happy for his lecture to be republished in Kosmos.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | [after 10 Feb 1881] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36219) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13048F |
From Francis Darwin to George King [after 21 November 1881]
Summary
CD asks him to say that the beautiful specimens of Dischidia arrived safely.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | [after 21 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 113b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13501F |
From Francis Darwin to Raphael Meldola 12 January 1882
Summary
CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13611 |
From Francis Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 24 January [1881]
Summary
FD and CD have been interested in AdeC’s diagram for illustrating inheritance. The difficulty of estimating different qualities in oneself and others is very great. Encloses a diagram illustrating how FD compares himself with his parents. CD has filled in a comparison with his father. It shows he resembles his father more than FD resembles CD. [The qualities compared are: stature, hair, eyes, pulse, musical capacity, ability to draw, tendency toward biological sciences, tendency toward mathematical sciences, perseverence, memory, aptitude for foreign languages.]
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1881] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13642 |
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait [30 March 1882]
Summary
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | [30 Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13749 |
From Francis Darwin to Daniel Oliver [after 6 January 1875]
Summary
Asks DO to return enclosed post-card with locality of Genlisea aurea specimen that DO had sent.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 6 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9803F |
From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877
Summary
Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11277 |
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
From Francis Darwin to Thomas Edison [20–9 December 1877]
Summary
His father asks him to thank TAE for sending the curious case of the insects [see 11271].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Date: | [20–9 Dec 1877] |
| Classmark: | Thomas Edison National Park (Edison Document File, 1878 Folder: (D-78-02) Edison, T.A. – General) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11312A |
From Francis Darwin to A. S. Wilson 4 March 1878
Summary
Thanks ASW for Aegilops seed.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 394 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11400 |
From Francis Darwin [after 3 June 1875]
Summary
Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 June 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007F |
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| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
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| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Pearce, Horace | (1) |
| Ruck, Amy | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (1) |
| Stecker, Anton | (1) |
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