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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[29 April 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2224
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, W. E.; Darwin, Francis
Date:
[27 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 84
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[January 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 623
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
11 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:

Instructions on paying a bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1867-70]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 1
Summary:

Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 [June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 3
Summary:

A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[29 Apr – 27 May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 190, DAR 84.2: 211
Summary:

Sends message to CD about development of horns in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 6
Summary:

Sends a cheque to pay off FD’s debts. Warns him of the dangers of overspending his income and advises him strongly to keep accounts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 4
Summary:

Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 2 and 4
Summary:

Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.

On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.

He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.

[See 7507 and 7519.]

He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.

Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.

If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 2
Summary:

If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 3
Summary:

Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 May [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 3
Summary:

George [Darwin] plans a trip to America and would like FD to go [see 7757]. CD will gladly pay whole cost if the trip will not interfere with FD’s medical work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 May [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 7–8
Summary:

CD will pay for the American trip if it takes place.

Asks whether FD can help him understand the eyes of cephalopods; is the structure the same as in the Vertebrata and are the parts developed from homologous layers of skin?

Has been pleased by a recent review.

Postscript: Is thinking of a cheap edition of the Origin [1872] in which he hopes to answer St George Mivart’s criticisms.

Asks FD whether he can get some references to good papers on cephalapod eyes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 4
Summary:

Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".

Has invited Michael Foster to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 5
Summary:

Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29)
Summary:

Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project