DCP-LETT-7386B
Summary
Draft of S 10764F
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Literary Fund |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7386B |
To Octavian Blewitt 2 April [1862]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491F |
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- … Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund. …
- … honour of acting as one of the Stewards at the Anniversary Dinner of the Literary Fund. — …
- … established from the position of this letter in the archives of the Royal Literary Fund. …
- … Blewitt was secretary of the Royal Literary Fund. See also this volume, Supplement, letter …
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, …
- … 1985–. Cross, Nigel. 1984. The Royal Literary Fund, 1790–1918: an introduction to the …
- … applied for assistance from the Royal Literary Fund on 1 January 1877 (British Library …
- … For more on the history of the Royal Literary Fund , see Cross 1984 . Cupples probably …
- … M rs Cupples intends to apply to the Literary Fund for assistance under her present most …
- … any one on whom the generosity of the Literary Fund could be better bestowed than on M rs …
To Octavian Blewitt 27 March [1860]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2733F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund. …
- … must decline the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Literary Fund. — …
- … Blewitt was secretary of the Royal Literary Fund, an institution that gave financial …
- … Adam Smith, ‘A short history’, Royal Literary Fund, History, https://www.rlf.org.uk/home/ …
Cross, Nigel. 1984. The Royal Literary Fund, 1790–1918: an introduction to the fund’s history and archives with an index of applicants. London: World Microfilms Publications.
To John Brown 20 February 1882
Summary
Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brown |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.6289/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13694 |
From Charles Renard 20 May 1870
Summary
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
| Author: | Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7195 |
To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
From Benjamin Clarke 25 March 1867
Summary
Thanks for subscription.
Reports experiments with wheat.
Sends notes on producing varieties by pruning.
| Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 157, 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5460 |
From John William Salter 31 December 1866
Summary
JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.
| Author: | John William Salter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5329 |
To Lawson Tait 16 July [1880]
Summary
Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 16 July [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12659 |
From F. E. Abbot to W. E. Darwin 19 January 1876
Summary
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.7: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362G |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
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- … literary composition. & no doubt full of valuable historical matter— he is a queer fellow, eccentric like all his Grandfather’s grandchildren; with brains enough for us all if he would put them to work systematically. I had the most enjoyable dinner I ever sat down to out your home or perhaps Lubbocks at Frank Palgraves the other day, the guests being Jowett Maurice & Gifford. — Browning & Stanley came afterwards. Can you afford to subscribe to the Palestine Exploration fund. …
From Agnes Taylor 20 March [1882]
Summary
Seeking contributions to assist the widow of C. T. Beke.
| Author: | Agnes Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13730 |
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- … Funds” so soon as I am able to submit to the Premier the amount I have collected. The proposal happily meets with the entire approval of the following Noblemen & Gentlemen who have promised me their assistance & support. As of course I shall have a great deal to do to get up the money—I shall be most thankful if you will benevolently send me a kind contribution out of sympathy for the Widow of one, whose Public Services in respect of Abyssinia, as well as his Literary, …
To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
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- … fund; Cobbe may have suggested one in a missing letter to CD. Mary Charlotte Lloyd . CD published his observations on the relative effect on colour of cross and self-fertilisation in a number of plant species in Cross and self fertilisation , pp. 307–11. Although primarily interested in the relative effects on size and health, he had made notes on the colour of the seventh generation of self-fertilised plants of Ipomæa purpurea in 1869 (DAR 78: 89). CD refers to the literary …
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| Brown, John | (1) |
Robert FitzRoy in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
