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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.
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].
Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.
Is in despair about his astronomy.
Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.
Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.
Sends CD information he had requested on W. Graham.
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
E. A. Darwin’s funeral arrangements.
The merchants suggest that CD keep the wine and return it if more is corked.
Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].
Has found the missing packet of forks, which he will send or take to Down.
Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.
Has sent the inscription [for E. A. Darwin’s gravestone]. If CD approves, will he forward it to G. S. ffinden [Vicar of Downe Parish] and William [Darwin].
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
Sends an agreement for his signature and forwarding to Patterson & Bloxham.
Hears that James Challis [Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge] is on the point of death. Believes he has a good chance to succeed him; sends a list of the electors.
Writes of Challis’ health
and of other matters of family interest.
Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].
Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
