From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:
Requests some seeds.
Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 50
Summary:
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 12
Summary:
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project