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DCP-LETT-13319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:

Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13400F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[14 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 24
Summary:

Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

The text on EAD’s gravestone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13401

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 95
Summary:

Sends text of the gravestone inscription [for E. A. Darwin] and details of arrangements for removal of furniture from Queen Anne St.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13404

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 96
Summary:

Has sent the inscription [for E. A. Darwin’s gravestone]. If CD approves, will he forward it to G. S. ffinden [Vicar of Downe Parish] and William [Darwin].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13412

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 97
Summary:

Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:

Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13488

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 98
Summary:

Sends an agreement for his signature and forwarding to Patterson & Bloxham.

Hears that James Challis [Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge] is on the point of death. Believes he has a good chance to succeed him; sends a list of the electors.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1.: 111
Summary:

Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13494

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 99
Summary:

Writes of Challis’ health

and of other matters of family interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13503

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 100
Summary:

Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 112
Summary:

Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13532

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 101
Summary:

Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13570

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:
20 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR (CD library— Index Kewensis tom. 1)
Summary:

Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13590

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1882?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 116
Summary:

Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13603

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:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 60
Summary:

Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13631

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 113
Summary:

Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13636

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 102
Summary:

Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13639

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 103
Summary:

Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13640

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 104
Summary:

Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.

Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 114
Summary:

Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.

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