Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.
Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.
Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.
Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,
and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
Thanks CD for his condolences. Reminisces about their youth.
On the death of his naturalist friend, W. C. Hewitson.
Informs CD that in his experience with peas he has never found the seed to deteriorate.
Sends family news;
describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.
Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
Has been away from parish because of a three-month illness. Refers briefly to events in England since the Beagle sailed.
He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.
Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.
His health has improved but he continues "a good deal of an invalid" and is uncertain what the future holds for him.
His interest in entomology and ornithology continues; he has been studying the gulls on the Isle of Wight.
WDF sends news of his activities and of his family.
Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.
Plans to meet CD in town.
Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.
A "quiz" on CD has appeared in the Illustrated Times [2 May 1863, p. 317].
Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.