From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sleigh
Date:
[before 26 Sept 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 93
Summary:
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:
Searching for the right gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
9 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 333
Summary:
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].
Remarks on progress of Japan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
Summary:
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 549
Summary:
Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 97
Summary:
Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Schulte
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 428
Summary:
Discusses case of colour display in butterfly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 107
Summary:
Has seen newspaper accounts of JT’s potato experiments. T. H. Farrer wants to know whether JT has published any account of them, and how much assistance he needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
3 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 98
Summary:
Has written to Torbitt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 108
Summary:
Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
8 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 60
Summary:
Discusses the marriage-settlement for Horace and Ida.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 99
Summary:
Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 109
Summary:
Describes problems of raising money [for potato experiments]. "A Government official in another office remarked to me that it was very difficult for Ministers to decide what to do in such cases as they must be prepared for mere cavillers in the H[ouse] of Commons."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 180
Summary:
Discusses possibility of Government pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 181
Summary:
Has discussed with Hooker possibility of Government pension for Wallace. Hooker is pessimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Huntington Library1
- Kobunso (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller)1
- Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers), Crewkerne1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal College of Physicians of London1