From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
[1874–82]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 123
Summary:
[Valediction and signature only.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 24
Summary:
Hooker has told her of CD’s work on insectivorous plants. Offers plants, but her Dionaea plants are too small now.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
Nevill 1910, pp. 107–8
Summary:
Thanks DFN for her letter [see 9620].
Has nearly finished work on Dionaea.
Asks her to send a specimen of Drosera dichotoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
7 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
Summary:
Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 20
Summary:
Offers Utricularia montana and gives instructions for growing Drosera.
Wishes to visit CD at Down when she comes to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 19
Summary:
Has sent the Utricularia with the bladders that CD described.
In Variation CD does not mention a rare breed of Siamese cat, which she owns.
Asks for another photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
11 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Returns a Drosera, from which he cut a piece for microscopic examination.
Utricularia montana just arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
12 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD has never before seen the Utricularia DN has sent. Hooker had told him about it. Asks that her gardener observe young Utricularia: CD is interested in internal structure of little balls on bladders.
Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 21
Summary:
CD should remove packing moss, and he will find bladders in foot-stalks of Utricularia DN sent.
Experimenting on insectivorous plants.
Implores CD to visit.
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Stupidly missed Utricularia bladders, which he assumed were with the leaves. Has now found true bladders on roots and has evidence of captive prey. Thinks bladders capture subterranean insects. Thinks the large bladder-like structures are water reservoirs. DN’s plant has given him a most enjoyable day of work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 22
Summary:
Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 23
Summary:
Would like to know the results of CD’s Utricularia experiments.
A Brazilian love-bird, escaped from captivity, has been found in a robin’s nest, apparently starved to death along with three young robins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
29 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 147: 187
Summary:
CD thought he had already reported to DN on Utricularia. The large swellings in roots store water. The minute bladders are adapted to catch live animals and feed on decayed remains.
Will visit DN when in London this winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 30
Summary:
Understands from Lady Hawkshaw that CD generally visits London [in February]. Requests meeting with CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Feb 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.463)
Summary:
Cannot visit now because of work on Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 31
Summary:
Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 33
Summary:
Thanks CD for his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would like to visit again before August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 29
Summary:
Thanks CD again for his book [Insectivorous plants];
would like an autograph to put in it.
Would be delighted if ever she could visit Down again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 122
Summary:
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Dec 1875?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 32
Summary:
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project