From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall 7 October [1875]
Summary
An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185F |
To John Tyndall 20 October [1875]
Summary
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10207 |
From John Tyndall 23 October [1875]
Summary
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10218 |
To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10222 |
From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
To John Tyndall 4 February 1876
Summary
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10379 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10381 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10382 |
To John Tyndall 5 June [1876]
Summary
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 5 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10532 |
To John Tyndall 20 October 1877
Summary
Has read JT’s address ["Science and man", The Times, 2 October 1877, p. 8]. What JT says about CD honours and pleases him. JT’s short character of Faraday is beautiful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 26 (EH 88205964) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11193 |
To John Tyndall 4 December [1878]
Summary
Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11771 |
From John Tyndall 5 December 1878
Summary
Will provide the siren.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11774 |
To John Tyndall 22 December [1878]
Summary
Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11802 |
To John Tyndall 14 February 1879
Summary
Has been asked to contribute to W. K. Clifford memorial fund. Asks JT’s advice on how much the committee hopes to raise. Would like to give handsomely but feels bound "with such a lot of children, not to be extravagant".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 30 (EH 88205968) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11882 |
To John Tyndall 17 February [1879]
Summary
Thanks JT for his information. Sends £50 to the W. K. Clifford memorial fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 31 (EH 88205969) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11886 |
To John Tyndall 3 March [1878]
Summary
Sends W. K. Clifford subscription.
Has been unwell and hardly able to do anything. Has seen Andrew Clark.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 29 (EH 88205967) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11912 |
To John Tyndall 13 February 1882
Summary
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13680 |
From John Tyndall 15 February 1882
Summary
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13688F |
To John Tyndall 4 February [1857]
Summary
CD is "as ignorant of mechanics as a pig", but glaciers have interested him greatly. Hopes to hear that JT’s experiments with ice will explain the freezing together of ice below the freezing point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 2 (EH 88205940) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2046 |
To John Tyndall 23 February [1861]
Summary
Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.
Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3067 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Tyndall, John | (19) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (36) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Tyndall, John | (55) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
