To Leonard Darwin 25 November 1874
Summary
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9733 |
Matches: 4 hits
From W. de W. Abney to Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
| Author: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196F |
From Leonard Darwin 1 March 1874
Summary
Notes on movements of Mimosa pudica.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9328 |
From Leonard Darwin 3 May 1874
Summary
Experiments on sensitive plants.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9438 |
From Leonard Darwin [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9196 |
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- … 1874] . The purpose of the glass case has not been established. Leonard spent time at the observatory in Greenwich while preparing for the transit of Venus expedition ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter from G. H. Darwin, [ …
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Summary
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
From Leonard Darwin to W. de W. Abney [before 27 June 1874]
Summary
Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.
[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Date: | [before 27 June 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9202 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1874]
Summary
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 342 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9728 |
To Leonard Rudd 18 April [1874]
Summary
Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Rudd |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.441) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9416 |
From J. V. Carus 7 July 1874
Summary
Thanks for proofs [of Descent, 2d English ed.].
Publisher would like better photographs for Expression [2d German ed.].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9536 |
To F. C. Donders 7 July 1874
Summary
Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Date: | 7 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 417 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9535 |
From F. C. Donders 12 July 1874
Summary
On hearing of CD’s work with Drosera, tells of his experiment showing extreme sensitivity of the iris of a dog’s eye to atropine. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 173.]
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9545 |
To G. H. Darwin [20? August 1874]
Summary
Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [20? Aug 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9711 |
From Leonard Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 26 June – 28 September 1874]
Summary
Describes voyage to New Zealand.
| Author: | Leonard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 239.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9517F |
From Leonard Rudd 12 April 1874
Summary
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
| Author: | Leonard Rudd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 168–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405 |
From Douglas Fox to W. de W. Abney 7 June 1879
Summary
Regrets he knows little of Dr Erasmus Darwin, but relates anecdotes told him by his father, Dr Fox of Derby.
| Author: | Douglas Fox |
| Addressee: | William de Wiveleslie Abney |
| Date: | 7 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12093 |
From W. H. M. Christie 12 October 1874
Summary
Announces arrival of the Merope [Leonard Darwin’s ship] at Canterbury, New Zealand.
| Author: | William Henry Mahoney Christie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9677 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 [August] 1874
Summary
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 [Aug] 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9590 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Abney, W. de W. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
