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 Asa Gray to Francis Darwin 17 December 1880
Summary
Roots arising from stems and shoots of brambles.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12921 |
From Francis Darwin [before 15 December 1880]
Summary
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379F |
From W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin 16 February 1880
Summary
Enjoyed his visit to Down.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12486 |
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
To Francis Darwin [before 1 August 1880]
Summary
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12645 |
To Francis Darwin 28 July [1880]
Summary
Thanks FD for criticisms [of Movement in plants]. J. D. Hooker was interested in the observations of movement in Desmodium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12672 |
From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
To Francis Darwin 5 August [1880]
Summary
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12679 |
To Francis Darwin 11 August [1880]
Summary
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12686 |
From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880]
Summary
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 12 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12807F |
From O. A. Ainslie to Francis Darwin 28 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for information about the property in question [Tromer Lodge, see 12842]. His father, Robert Ainslie, had protested a settlement made in an earlier transaction.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12872A |
To Francis Darwin 27 December [1880]
Summary
FD’s abstract ["Physiology of plants", Nature 23 (1880): 178–81] is excellent, and as clear as daylight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12945 |
To Francis Darwin [after 27 December 1880]
Summary
The Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone in support of a pension for A. R. Wallace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [after 27 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12950 |
From the Darwin children 17 January 1880
Summary
Send CD a present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12428 |
To the Darwin children 17 [January 1880]
Summary
Thanks his children for their present of a fur coat.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 17 [Jan 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12429 |
To the Darwin children 10 January 1880
Summary
Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.
| 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: | 10 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12414 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (17) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
