From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 25
Summary:
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 26
Summary:
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 29
Summary:
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A19–21
Summary:
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A29–30
Summary:
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 33
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A18, A25–8
Summary:
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 31
Summary:
Sends WED a bank draft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 35
Summary:
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 40
Summary:
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 43
Summary:
Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 June [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 45
Summary:
Reports events at Down.
Is busy with proofs [of Origin];
is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 July [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 46
Summary:
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 [Aug 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 47
Summary:
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[23 Oct – 20 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 48
Summary:
Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14 Oct 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 49
Summary:
Discusses events at Ilkley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 55
Summary:
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 56
Summary:
Tells of Etty’s [Henrietta]’s illness and progress; their future plans.
Mentions some responses to the Origin; the naturalists are fighting over it in North America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 58
Summary:
Concern over Henrietta’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 59
Summary:
Discusses Henrietta’s illness and their plans to return to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
