From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 75
Summary:
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 90
Summary:
CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
26 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 90
Summary:
CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 8
Summary:
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June – 28 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2
Summary:
Describes voyage to New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:
Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 31
Summary:
LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 147
Summary:
Asks for proportion of water and of nitrogen in various ammonium salts.
[WWA’s replies are with the letter.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 153: 91
Summary:
LD’s letter recalled old scenes on board the Beagle.
CD’s "bothering correspondents" seem to increase in number and in folly; has just answered "two precious fools".
Has been working very hard on Droseraceae and can "now see daylight".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 92
Summary:
Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 153: 92
Summary:
Is "awfully glad" at LD’s appointment [as an instructor at Chatham].
Thinks LD should start reading chemistry "though reading does not do much".
Reports scientific work of George and Frank Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 186: 32
Summary:
LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:
Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 34
Summary:
Encloses two photos [missing].
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:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 186: 35
Summary:
Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 12 July] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B7–10
Summary:
Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 93
Summary:
Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project