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DCP-LETT-4139

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 110: 62
Summary:

Sends observations on [Anchusa] plants from Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4139F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:

Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 110
Summary:

Discusses dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4147

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B188–90
Summary:

Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 111
Summary:

Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.

Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4168F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 20 May 1863
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 16)
Summary:

Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4222F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 17)
Summary:

Spoke to Rosas, and gave him CD’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3894F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 June 1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11)
Summary:

Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 94
Summary:

Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4251F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1863]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 18)
Summary:

Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 112
Summary:

Relates events at Down;

asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.

His present hobby-horse is tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4271

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 95
Summary:

Has signed and forwarded some orders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4323F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219. 1: 78
Summary:

CD’s health.

Family and local news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4416

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 85, 173–4
Summary:

Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3633

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[16 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 116
Summary:

CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4434

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 86–7, 175–7
Summary:

Sends drawings of the pollen from Chinese Primula plants with styles and pistils of different lengths; observations on sizes and condition of their pollen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4460F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
12 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold at Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Instructions concerning the payment of the principal and interest of the mortgage to Mr Childe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4462

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A68–74
Summary:

Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Apr – 5 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: 9
Summary:

Describes difference between Pulmonaria flowers; wishes to know whether it is general.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4466

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A77–81b
Summary:

CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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