To John Fiske 14 May [1880]
Summary
Invites JF to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 14 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8269) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12606 |
From Emma Wedgwood and Louisa Holland to F. E. E. Wedgwood [21 and 24 November 1836]
Summary
Tells of the pleasure that CD’s visit gave the family.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Louisa Holland; Louisa Croft |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 21 and 24 Nov 1836 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-324 |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [28 October 1836]
Summary
CD will not get to Maer that week. The Langtons are leaving and will meet him at Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1836] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-316 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 October 1880
Summary
Sends some questions raised by THF’s notes on earthworms at Abinger; he plans to use them in his book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12732 |
From Anthony Rich 20 November [1880]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12833 |
From Emma Darwin to F. J. Hughes 13 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].
Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.
Recalls happy days at Penally.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13683 |
From Sophy Wedgwood 15 October [1880]
Summary
On worms and worm-castings.
| Author: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12760 |
To T. H. Farrer 8 October 1880
Summary
Questions the exact location of rooms and trenches at Abinger excavation [for Earthworms].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/35); DAR 185: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12743 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1880
Summary
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12748 |
From Anthony Rich 7 March 1880
Summary
Writes of the weather,
his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],
and domestic matters.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12524 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 March [1880]
Summary
The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].
Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12514 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
To W. E. Darwin 9 [June 1880]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s lectures on Natural science and religion [1880].
Greatly enjoyed their stay at Bassett.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [June 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12624 |
From O. A. Ainslie 23 November 1880
Summary
Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11a (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12842 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Robert Ainslie was a Methodist minister who had lived in Down at Pond House (later Tromer Lodge) from 1845 to 1858 (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 [May 1858] and n. 5). The house was sold by Ainslie in 1862 and purchased by Elizabeth Wedgwood in 1868 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. B. Innes, 22 December [1862] , and Emma …
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin (then Wedgwood) and her sister Frances had stayed with their aunt and uncle Jessie and Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi in Geneva and Chêne between November 1826 and June 1827 ( Emma Darwin (1904) , 1: 245–74; Healey 2001 , p. 105); they had made a shorter visit with other members of their family in 1825 ( Healey 2001 , pp. 96–7). Candolle visited Down on 27 September 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Rich, Anthony | (2) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
