From W. E. Darwin [27 February 1882]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13347F |
From W. E. Darwin 28 February [1882]
Summary
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13711F |
From W. E. Darwin 15 March 1882
Summary
News about his dividends.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 110) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726G |
From W. E. Darwin 2 February [1882]
Summary
Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13654F |
From W. E. Darwin 25 January 1882
Summary
Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13645F |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January [1882]
Summary
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672F |
From W. E. Darwin 23 March 1882
Summary
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13734F |
From W. E. Darwin 4 January 1882
Summary
Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13599F |
From W. E. Darwin 13 March 1882
Summary
Sends a dividend cheque.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13726F |
From W. E. Darwin 16 January [1882]
Summary
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1882] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13619F |
From T. G. Bonney to W. E. Darwin [before 2 February 1882]
Summary
Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.
| Author: | Thomas George Bonney |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [before 2 Feb 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13591 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 February 1882
Summary
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672 |
From T. G. Bonney 5 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.
| Author: | Thomas George Bonney |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 246, 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13663 |
From F. B. Sanborn 12 January 1882
Summary
Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot
and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].
| Author: | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13615 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 January 1882
Summary
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13640 |
From W. E. Darwin and G. H. Darwin to John Lubbock 22 April 1882
Summary
Inviting Lubbock to be a pall-bearer at CD’s funeral.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1882 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 128–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769I |
To G. H. Darwin 24 February [1882]
Summary
Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13704 |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
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 |
| Darwin, W. E. | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Bonney, T. G. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Bonney, T. G. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
