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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
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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
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[January 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 623
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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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:
[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
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:
13 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 17
Summary:
Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: A6–7
Summary:
Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]
Contributor:
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