From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 [Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 10
Summary:
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2222
Summary:
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 37
Summary:
Writes about their new billiard table.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251
Summary:
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 90.1
Summary:
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 51: 6–7
Summary:
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–15 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 1
Summary:
Discusses some angles [relating to phyllotaxy].
The forthcoming school holidays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 99
Summary:
Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 6 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 100
Summary:
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 May [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 2
Summary:
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 2
Summary:
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 3
Summary:
Congratulations on GHD’s brilliant tripos success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 5
Summary:
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 4
Summary:
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 6
Summary:
Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.
Tells of his visit to Eton.
Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 7
Summary:
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
