From W. E. Darwin 21 November 1881
Summary
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497F |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 January 1881
Summary
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13027 |
To G. H. Darwin 7 May [1879]
Summary
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12036 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1881]
Summary
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Sara Darwin were staying at Abinger Hall, the home of Thomas Henry Farrer . Katherine Euphemia (Effie) Farrer , Farrer’s second wife, was William’s cousin. The other guests at Abinger were Francis Turner Palgrave and his wife Cecil Grenville Milnes Palgrave , and Clarke Hawkshaw and his wife Cicely Mary Hawkshaw , Effie and William’s cousin. Ida and Horace Darwin left Down on 19 April for a visit to Abinger ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. …
From W. E. Darwin 26 November [1880]
Summary
Observations on worms’ pulling leaves into their burrows.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12861 |
From G. H. Darwin [7 September 1881]
Summary
Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Sept 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13321 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin , but it was unlikely they were part of the Cleatham estate because that had not been owned by the Darwin family since 1762 ( Worsley 2017 , pp. 40 and 71). William Thomson . William Erasmus Darwin was Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s other executor (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881 ). William and Sara …
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Probably Anne Ashburner , Sara Darwin’s aunt. William and Frances Anna Thomson had lunched with the Darwins on 11 May 1880 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 May 1880] (DAR 219.9: 236)). George and Horace Darwin were constructing a pendulum to measure the lunar disturbance of gravity ( G. …
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