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DCP-LETT-8593F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51)
Summary:

Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9022

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 106
Summary:

Experiments with Mimosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9025

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 107
Summary:

Experiments on Mimosa; effects of immersion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9035

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug – 14 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 108
Summary:

Experiments on Mimosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9117F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1873
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 52)
Summary:

Has visited Alford and Beesby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9201

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 137; Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 154)
Summary:

Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9554

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19? July 1874]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 53); DAR 58.1: 135–6
Summary:

WED encloses a letter from H. M. Wilkinson about Utricularia and sundew.

H. M. Wilkinson has examined bladders of Utricularia; doubts that they absorb or digest insects.

H. M. Wilkinson describes dragonfly trapped by sundew [Drosera].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9909F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 57)
Summary:

Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10201G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 55)
Summary:

Sent a copy of Orchis book to Gentry. Mentions Morley’s article on Diderot. Asks for another copy of the new edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10297F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15? Dec 1875]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 56)
Summary:

Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10366F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Jan 1876?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58)
Summary:

Purchases cigarettes for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10458F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59)
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10622F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60)
Summary:

Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11212F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64)
Summary:

Discussing a purchase of land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11260F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65)
Summary:

Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10794F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Summary:

Thanks for the copy of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10922F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Mar? 1877]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67)
Summary:

Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10923F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61)
Summary:

Arrangements about a purchase of land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10343

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Summary:

Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10743

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 or 19] July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 14
Summary:

Discusses an experiment.

His dogs appear to have rabies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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