From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Jemmy was Horace Darwin’s nickname; Francis possibly refers to a letter from Horace …
- … Horace had sent George Howard Darwin a typewritten letter from London (DAR 258: 860), and he might have written to CD or Francis on the same day. Francis and his wife, Amy Darwin , had been practising typing on a dummy printing machine in advance of the arrival of CD’s typewriter (see letter …
From Francis Darwin 14 August [1873]
Summary
Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9009F |
To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [before 25 June 1859]
Summary
Report on three rare beetles they have recently taken in Down parish.
| Author: | Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer |
| Date: | [before 25 June 1859] |
| Classmark: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer 6 (1859): 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2472 |
To George Howard Darwin 24 [February 1859]
Summary
Writes about their new billiard table.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2420 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Summary
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horace Darwin also wanted Francis to reconsider and wrote to Francis Maitland Balfour , who was himself a candidate for examinership, to see whether this would be possible ( letter …
- … Horace Darwin to Francis Maitland Balfour, 14 March 1879 ; National Archives of Scotland (GD433/2/103B/95–6)). Balfour was an examiner from 1879 to 1881 ( Cambridge University Reporter , 25 March 1879, p. 475; Alum. Cantab. ). CD had encouraged Hooker to accept the presidency of the Royal Society of London (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter …
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 |
To Francis Darwin 30 May [1881]
Summary
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13184 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
To Francis Darwin 28 [October 1881]
Summary
Earthworms is selling well.
Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.
Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.
S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 28 [Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13440 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 October 1879
Summary
How to bargain on Horace Darwin’s marriage-settlement: Francis received £5000; Horace could receive more as an inducement for the Farrers to increase Ida’s dowry.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12256 |
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12668 |
From Philip Henry Stanhope 28 July 1862
Summary
Invites CD and Emma to dine.
| Author: | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3669 |
From W. M. Hacon 4 November 1879
Summary
WMH will negotiate with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement. Will attempt to make the settlement £5000, the same as Francis received.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12294 |
To G. J. Romanes [before 26 April 1876]
Summary
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [before 26 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13838 |
To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881]
Summary
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13422 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
From W. E. Darwin 29 July [1871?]
Summary
Wants CD to sign an enclosure [missing] and get the signatures of other family members.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July [1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7886 |
To Francis Darwin 14 July [1878]
Summary
Asks for list of families of sleeping plants. Believes sleep is merely modified circumnutation at a particular time of day.
Porlieria has had no water for some time but shows no sign of flagging.
Describes the response of Thalia flowers to touch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 35, 36, 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11608 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horace Darwin’s suggestion was in response to Francis’s observation that an unwatered Porlieria hygrometrica planted in the ground in Würzburg slept much of the time in contrast to a well-watered potted plant kept indoors (see n. 3, above). See letter …
- … Darwin, [12 July 1878] . Gossypium is the genus of cotton in the family Malvaceae (mallows). CD was interested in fresh families because he and Francis had already studied several genera within the Leguminosae (a synonym of Fabaceae, the family of peas and beans). Francis had mentioned that Carl Gottfried Semper wanted to buy a typewriter like the one CD owned ( letter from Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). Horace …
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 |
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| Darwin, Francis | (15) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
| Hacon, W. M. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Darwin, Francis | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Darwin, Horace | (6) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
| Darwin, Francis | (24) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, Horace | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
