From [?] [?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13860 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DAR 205.7: 283–4 (Letters) Unidentified unstated [? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
To [?] [?]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (18 December 1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate". …
To ? [?]
Summary
[Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know nothing of your private".]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | Eric Korn (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864H |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know …
From [?] [?]
Summary
"but most of them [verily?] Christened by myself they may be indulged with a"
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD Library-Eschwege 1832) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13861 |
From [?] [?]
Summary
[Fragmentary strip.] Discusses pigeons, Australia, Regents Park.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [?] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD Library - Volz 1852) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13862 |
From Mary Congreve 27 October [1821]
Summary
Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.
Author: | Mary Congreve |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct [1821] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1 |
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … samples (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from E. A. Darwin, 14 November 1822 ). …
- … book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are …
- … book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are …
- … as Catherine; see this volume, Supplement, letters to Dear Friend, 2 January 1822 , n. 3, …
- … absence of any reference to her in the letters is best explained by her being the intended …
- … home on holiday during the period when the letters were written. The school year comprised …
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
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- … can conveniently, I hope you received yesterdays letter— I remain, you know what A PUg , …
- … Catherine, and his brother, Erasmus (see Correspondence vol. 1, letters from E. A. …
- … October 1822] and [10 January 1825] , and letter from E. C. Darwin, [ c. June 1823]). …
- … was used by Erasmus to store scientific books (see ibid. , letter from E. A. Darwin, [8 …
- … affectionate pug’; see this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 12 January 1822 . …
- … been identified. See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. …
- … 1. See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 and n. 2. CD had …
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
Matches: 5 hits
- … burst ] w[ith] a nose as big as your fist January the 2, 1822 The second letter today …
- … see Oldham 1952 , p. 155. Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Since this letter appears in the …
- … book immediately after the letter to Dear Friend, 4 January 1822 (this volume, …
- … identified. See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD …
- … p. 22, and this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1). …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
Matches: 4 hits
- … a friend of the family (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Caroline and Susan …
- … Darwin, 2 [January 1826], and letter from Catherine Darwin, 15 January [1826] ). …
- … identified. See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD …
- … Mrs O. Jones ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Susan Darwin, [27 March 1826] ). …
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friend |
Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 25 [October 1822]
Summary
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Oct 1822] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November 1822
Summary
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … laboratory expenses. On the cover of the letter, perhaps in CD’s hand, is written: 5. 2. 6 …
From E. A. Darwin 8 December 1822
Summary
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1822 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4 |
From E. A. Darwin 5 [March 1823]
Summary
More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 [Mar 1823] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5 |
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- … E Darwin P.S. The first page of your letter was very well written so I give you a [tick] …
From E. A. Darwin 18 May 1823
Summary
Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1823 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6 |
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- … approved of, you must in your answer to this letter in close a ten pound note to frank me …
From Emily Catherine Darwin [c. June 1823]
Summary
Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".
She misses him and the laboratory.
Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. June 1823] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter". She misses him and the laboratory. …
- … Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 …
- … which was planned for early July 1823 (see letter from E. A. Darwin, 18 May 1823 ), and …
- … my box and find your very entertaining letter till after they were gone. — I am very much …
- … so like to hear from you. — Of Course you will burn this letter the moment you have read …
- … it—and if you show this letter to any body I will never write to you any more— I am very …
From John Wood Warter 23 December 1824
Summary
Warns CD against idleness.
Suggests readings in Xenophon and Horace.
Quotes Oliver Goldsmith to correct CD’s pronunciation of "sloth".
Author: | John Wood Warter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1824 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8 |
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- … A. Darwin at school. John Price , in a letter of reminiscences to Francis Darwin , says …
From E. A. Darwin [10 January 1825]
Summary
Saw a mineral salesman, but he had nothing CD does not already have.
EAD has a piece of petrified sponge and some curious coal that John Price pulled out of his fire.
Griffith’s Animal kingdom [Griffith, Edward, et al. 1827–35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, … with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. 16 vols. London] just being published. He is sure CD would like it.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1825] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9 |
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … letters have suffered an even more severe loss. In a letter to Lyell’s sister-in-law, Katharine …
- … of fact . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] …
- … that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had called the ‘mystery …
- … about searching for evidence to support his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838 …
- … just the same, though I know what I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July …
- … there were no doubts as to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [ c. February 1839] …
- … for several months (See Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , …
- … notebook). See also Allan 1977, pp. 128–30). The letter, on ‘Double flowers’ to the …