From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
14 May [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 233
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[5 November 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 252
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Jones Agnew Bristow
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 304
Summary:
Reports on the standing of James Torbitt: "the opinion of the Public is that he is rich and highly respectable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 [Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
1 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40
Summary:
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laura Mary Forster
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[11 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 158
Summary:
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 153: 89
Summary:
Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Aug 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 1
Summary:
Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[16 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 116
Summary:
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 68
Summary:
Instinct in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 9
Summary:
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Thomas Warner
Date:
14 Oct [1863]
Source of text:
Mrs Carole Cockett (private collection)
Summary:
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[18 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 118
Summary:
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[14–21 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 59
Summary:
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 67
Summary:
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
26 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 57
Summary:
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 45
Summary:
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 46, DAR 189: 140
Summary:
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Bristow, E. J. A.1
- Darwin, C. R.41
- Darwin, Elizabeth8
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, Francis8
- Darwin, G. H.8
- Darwin, H. E.57
- Darwin, Horace8
- Darwin, Leonard8
- Darwin, Sara2
- Darwin, W. E.10
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Forster, L. M.2
- Hordern, E. F.1
- Litchfield, H. E.
- Litchfield, R. B.2
- Lubbock, E. F.1
- Lubbock, Mary1
- Norton, C. E.1
- Norton, S. R. S.1
- Sedgwick, Sara2
- Stephen, Leslie1
- Turton, Mary1
- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Warner, Thomas1
- Wedgwood, Emma2
- Wedgwood, F. J.3
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
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