From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 [Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 23
Summary:
CD intends to enter WED at Christ’s College.
Thanks him for inquiries made about horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 24
Summary:
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 25
Summary:
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 26
Summary:
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 27
Summary:
Has come to heavy grief about bees’ cells, unless Huber is wrong [François Huber, New observations on the natural history of bees, new ed. (1841)].
Discusses cart-horses and stripes on a Belgiman [Belgian?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 28
Summary:
Relates domestic affairs.
Thinks his bees’ cell theory will hold good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 29
Summary:
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A19–21
Summary:
Sends £20. Family news.
Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown
Summary:
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A29–30
Summary:
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 31
Summary:
Sends WED a bank draft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 33
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A18, A25–8
Summary:
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 35
Summary:
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 40
Summary:
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 43
Summary:
Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 June [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 45
Summary:
Reports events at Down.
Is busy with proofs [of Origin];
is anxious to hear how WED does in his examinations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 July [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 46
Summary:
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 [Aug 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 47
Summary:
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14 Oct 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 49
Summary:
Discusses events at Ilkley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
