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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 April 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 869
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 175–6
Summary:
Fears he cannot give much information for CD’s book [Erasmus Darwin]. Recounts how his mother’s health was improved by Erasmus Darwin’s treatment. Remembers being attacked as a boy by an angry lady whose beautiful teeth were extracted by Dr Darwin "to cure some nervous spasms".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 142–3
Summary:
Thanks CD for offer of his portrait.
Suggests a solicitor who has Darwin papers and who may have information about Cleatham.
Describes her portrait of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 293
Summary:
Observations on unusual mating behaviour of canaries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 109
Summary:
Second edition of Edmond Barbier’s revised translation of Origin selling out; third one to be published.
A new edition of Variation, virtually retranslated by Barbier, is in press.
Second edition of Descent selling out.
CD’s botanical books are losing money.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 23
Summary:
Relates more family history and anecdotes concerning Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[18 April 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 825
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 154–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 136
Summary:
Comments on the branchiate trichopteran specimen from Fritz Müller sent previously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 24
Summary:
Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 77
Summary:
Thanks him for his efforts. CD cared most about the letter to Thomas Okes [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 14–15]. "Cannot think who the calumnious article cd have been about [in?] 1802."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[19 April 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 868
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 144–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 177–8
Summary:
Has no letters or papers [of Erasmus Darwin].
Suggests CD cite some of Erasmus Darwin’s poems to answer the charge of atheism [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 44].
Recounts a story of a remarkable cure by Dr Darwin, showing his sagacity and daring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 154
Summary:
Discusses his work on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 187
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 111
Summary:
Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 183
Summary:
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 167
Summary:
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 73); DAR 177: 254
Summary:
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project