To J. D. Hooker 30 [July 1858]
Summary
Six children have died of scarlet fever in Down village.
Writing abstract is amusing and improving work. Thanks JDH and Lyell for setting him to it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2314 |
To John Murray 17 November [1856–7]
Summary
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1856-7] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Summary
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
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- … She had moved to Petleys, a house in Down village, in 1847 (see Correspondence vol. 3, …
- … was the carpenter and undertaker in Down village. John Innes , perpetual curate of Down. …
- … village. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). Although CD had told Joseph Dalton Hooker that he would not be able to dine with him, CD did go to London for the day on 13 November, as proposed in the postscript in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 11–12 November [1856] . His name appears in the Royal Society Philosophical Club minutes as having attended the 13 November meeting, and the expenses for the trip were recorded in CD’s Account book (Down …
To Edward Cresy 15 May [1853]
Summary
Apologises for the trouble he has given EC. CD has given up the siphon plan and intends to make only an ordinary tank with a pump.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 15 May [1853] |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1682 |
From John Innes [before 6 April 1861]
Summary
A bee’s sting always remains behind.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3074 |
To Down Friendly Society 19 February 1877
Summary
CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down Friendly Society |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 138: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10853 |
To John Lubbock [25 May 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [25 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3158 |
To John Innes 4 March [1859]
Summary
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2232 |
To George Warde Norman [1848]
Summary
Seeks excuse from jury duty on grounds of ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
| Date: | [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1143 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Norman resided at Bromley Common, near Down village, and was a close friend of CD. Robert …
- … Down. Tuesday Even My dear Sir I am much obliged for your kind note I am sorry to have troubled you, but I had imagined it was the usual form for any one cognizant of a person’s state of health, to take an oath to that effect before a magistrate. M r Latter however to whom my servant went, on your kind suggestion says that such is not the case. Once however I thus escaped, M r Snow of this village …
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
To Catherine Darwin [24 July 1842]
Summary
Describes the village of Down and the house they are thinking of buying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [24 July 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 7 (EH 88202299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-637 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."
Hopes his health is re-established.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1545 |
To William Pamplin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Pamplin |
| Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
| Classmark: | Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13871 |
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 |
To Charles Lovegrove 9 July [1861?]
Summary
Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
| Date: | 9 July [1861?] |
| Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13823 |
From J. B. Innes 20 October 1869
Summary
Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.
Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6948 |
To J. B. Innes 15 September 1881
Summary
CD interested in JBI’s observations of behaviour of bees. Finds his criticism about hexagonal cells made by queen wasps a good one. Cannot remember how he got out of the difficulty.
His book on worms to be published soon.
E. A. Darwin has died after short illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13339 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 December [1875]
Summary
News of the parish and neighbours.
CD pleased JBI is interested in his book [Cross and self-fertilisation].
He is pretty well and hard at work with Francis.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10732 |
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