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Sir Francis Darwin: letters to Charles Darwin and Darwin family letters, [1865]-1940 (DAR 274)

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  • Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
  • Classmark: DAR 274
  • Extent: 1 volume
  • Material: Paper

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  • Classmark: DAR 274:1/1
  • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.,
  • Extent: 1 sheet folded
  • Material: Paper

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DAR 274:1/1: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit., (image 1, page 1/1:1r) DAR 274:1/2: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard., (image 5, page 1/2:1r) DAR 274:1/3: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Forwards letters., (image 9, page 1/3:1r) DAR 274:1/4: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia., (image 11, page 1/4:1r) DAR 274:1/5: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin., (image 15, page 1/5:1r) DAR 274:1/6: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday., (image 19, page 1/6:1r) DAR 274:1/7: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD's research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew)., (image 21, page 1/7:1r) DAR 274:1/8: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris., (image 25, page 1/8:1r) DAR 274:1/9: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller's microscope in Paris., (image 29, page 1/9:1r) DAR 274:1/10: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn't suit him. May go to Pryor's on Sunday., (image 31, page 1/10:1r) DAR 274:1/11: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads' ova does not bear on pangenesis., (image 35, page 1/11:1r) DAR 274:1/12: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage., (image 39, page 1/12:1r) DAR 274:1/13: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends list of bills, (image 43, page 1/13:1r) DAR 274:1/14: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills., (image 47, page 1/14:1r) DAR 274:1/15: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart., (image 51, page 1/15:1r) DAR 274:1/16: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Explains about the attendance at St George's hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America., (image 56, page 1/16:1r) DAR 274:1/17: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America., (image 62, page 1/17:1r) DAR 274:1/18: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill., (image 67, page 1/18:1r) DAR 274:1/19: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money., (image 71, page 1/19:1r) DAR 274:1/20: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis., (image 75, page 1/20:1r) DAR 274:1/21: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin., (image 79, page 1/21:1r) DAR 274:1/22: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD's paper 'Food bodies' in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science., (image 83, page 1/22:1r) DAR 274:1/23: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington., (image 85, page 1/23:1r) DAR 274:1/24: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine., (image 89, page 1/24:1r) DAR 274:1/25: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday., (image 91, page 1/25:1r) DAR 274:1/26: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth., (image 95, page 1/26:1r) DAR 274:1/27: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute., (image 101, page 1/27:1r) DAR 274:1/28: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good., (image 106, page 1/28:1r) DAR 274:1/29: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends Linnean papers., (image 108, page 1/29:1r) DAR 274:1/30: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / [The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society., (image 112, page 1/30:1r) DAR 274:1/31: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird's Six months in the Sandwich Islands., (image 114, page 1/31:1r) DAR 274:1/32: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton., (image 119, page 1/32:1r) DAR 274:1/33: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends thanks for CD's help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem., (image 121, page 1/33:1r) DAR 274:1/34: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants]., (image 125, page 1/34:1r) DAR 274:1/35: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants]., (image 127, page 1/35:1r) DAR 274:1/36: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel., (image 131, page 1/36:1r) DAR 274:1/37-38: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells., (image 135, page 1/37-38:1r) DAR 274:1/39: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. His paper went off well., (image 139, page 1/39:1r) DAR 274:1/40: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises., (image 141, page 1/40:1r) DAR 274:1/41: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts., (image 143, page 1/41:1r) DAR 274:1/42: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well., (image 148, page 1/42:1r) DAR 274:1/43: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Many thanks for the pelargonium letter., (image 153, page 1/43:1r) DAR 274:1/44: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has been working hard at Kew for two days., (image 155, page 1/44:1r) DAR 274:1/45: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph., (image 160, page 1/45:1r) DAR 274:1/46: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?, (image 162, page 1/46:1r) DAR 274:1/47: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard., (image 166, page 1/47:1r) DAR 274:1/48: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper., (image 172, page 1/48:1r) DAR 274:1/49: Letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin / Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy's address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander., (image 174, page 1/49:1r) DAR 274:1/50: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin (incomplete) /, (image 179, page 1/50:1r) DAR 274:1/51: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass., (image 181, page 1/51:1r) DAR 274:1/52: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin (incomplete) /, (image 187, page 1/52:1r) DAR 274:1/53: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs' laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic., (image 189, page 1/53:1r) DAR 274:1/54: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with., (image 194, page 1/54:1r) DAR 274:1/55: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks., (image 198, page 1/55:1r) DAR 274:1/56: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses Müller-Thurgau's work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg., (image 203, page 1/56:1r) DAR 274:1/57: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth., (image 207, page 1/57:1r) DAR 274:1/58: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / The Salvia has arrived. Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk. Cannot do any teazel work. Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres., (image 209, page 1/58:1r) DAR 274:1/59: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria., (image 211, page 1/59:1r) DAR 274:1/60: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters., (image 213, page 1/60:1r) DAR 274:1/61: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel., (image 220, page 1/61:1r) DAR 274:1/62: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Will stay in London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature., (image 222, page 1/62:1r) DAR 274:1/63: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him., (image 226, page 1/63:1r) DAR 274:1/64: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sorry he forgot the gardener's address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace's working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles., (image 231, page 1/64:1r) DAR 274:1/65: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night., (image 233, page 1/65:1r) DAR 274:1/66: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes., (image 238, page 1/66:1r) DAR 274:1/67: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs., (image 243, page 1/67:1r) DAR 274:1/68: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th., (image 248, page 1/68:1r) DAR 274:1/69: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature., (image 252, page 1/69:1r) DAR 274:1/70: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers., (image 257, page 1/70:1r) DAR 274:1/71: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports de Bary's opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations., (image 262, page 1/71:1r) DAR 274:1/72: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfring. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD's protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt., (image 266, page 1/72:1r) DAR 274:1/73: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of 'Växtbook' from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night., (image 272, page 1/73:1r) DAR 274:1/74: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures., (image 278, page 1/74:1r) DAR 274:1/75: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?, (image 280, page 1/75:1r) DAR 274:1/76: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann., (image 282, page 1/76:1r) DAR 274:2: Letters from Francis Darwin to his sister, Henrietta Emma Darwin / A collection of eight letters from Francis to Henrietta (1843-1927). None of the letters are dated but two are sent from Clapham Grammar School where Francis was a pupil until 1866 and it is thought the reminder were written by Francis when he was a student at Cambridge from 1866 to 1870. The letters give news from school and university., (image 288, page 2:1r) DAR 274:3: Letter from Francis Darwin to his mother, Emma Darwin / Single letter from Francis to his mother written from Clapham Grammar School. The letter is undated but thought to have been written in the summer of 1866 in his last term. Francis thanks his mother for a cheque and describes arrangements for an Old Fellows' Cricket match., (image 329, page 3:1r) DAR 274:4: Letters from Emma Darwin to Francis Darwin / A collection of three letters from Emma Darwin to Francis. Two of the letters are dated (5 June 1878 amd 22 July 1879 respectively - the latter is incomplete) and the third is thought to have been sent before 26 August 1880. The letters convey news of Frank's son Bernard and other family members., (image 334, page 4:1r) DAR 274:5: Letters from Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / A collection of five letters from Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. None of the letters are dated. The first of the letters is concerned with arrangements for a possible first visit by Mary Ruck and her daughter Amy to Down House. Subsequent letters carry news of Amy and Frank's son Bernard and other family members., (image 346, page 5:1r) DAR 274:6: Letter from Emma Darwin to Bernard Darwin / Single undated letter from Emma Darwin to her grandson Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) in which she describes some of her activities during a stay in Brighton., (image 366, page 6:1r) DAR 274:7: Letter from Emma Darwin to Ellen Wordsworth Darwin / Single letter dated 11 July [1888] from Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ellen Wordsworth Darwin née Crofts (1856-1903), second wife of Francis Darwin in which she describes a gathering of family and friends at Down House., (image 370, page 7:1r) DAR 274:8: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy / Collection of five letters sent from Amy Richenda Ruck, first wife of Francis Darwin, to Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy (1852-1928) between 1868 and [1874]. Elizabeth visited Australia in 1872 and in 1877 married Amy's elder brother Arthur Ashley Ruck (1847-1939). The letters carry news of family and mutual acquaintances and Amy's preparations for her forthcoming marriage to Francis., (image 375, page 8:1r) DAR 274:9: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Mary Catherine G. D'Arcy / Collection of 14 letters (stitched together) from Amy Ruck to Mary D'Arcy (1850-1927), elder sister of Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy sent throughout 1873. During 1873 Mary and Elizabeth 'Elly' were in Australia and Amy's letters are full of news from home., (image 401, page 9:1r) DAR 274:10: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Francis Darwin / Two letters from Amy Ruck to Francis Darwin sent in May 1874, a few weeks before their marriage on 23 July. The letters discuss ideas for furnishing their home and the purchase of various items., (image 473, page 10:1r) DAR 274:11: Letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Single letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. The letter is undated but is presumed to have been written before Henrietta's mrriage to Richard Buckley Litchfield on 31 August 1871. In the letter Henrietta sends her apologies for cancelling an appointment with a 'Sir Roger'., (image 484, page 11:1r) DAR 274:12: Letters from Elizabeth Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Two letters from Elizabeth Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. The letters are dated 1 August [1884] and 13 January [1897] and carry family news, particularly of Mary's grandson Bernard and of a visit by Elizabeth to Mrs Anne Isabella Ritchie (1837-1919), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray in [1896]., (image 488, page 12:1r) DAR 274:13: Letter from Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin to Francis Darwin / Single letter from Bernard Darwin to his father, Francis Darwin, dated 28 April 1886. The letter describes time spent whilst staying with his paternal grandmother in Cambridge., (image 500, page 13:1r) DAR 274:14: Letter from Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Single letter from Bernard Darwin to his maternal grandmother, Mary Ruck dated 22 September 1893 thanking her for sending him two photographs (one presumbed to be of his father Francis as a young man) and a piece of writing by his mother Amy., (image 504, page 14:1r) DAR 274:15: British Association for the Advancement of Science: Lecture and Address by Francis Darwin / Offprint for a lecture on 'The Movements of Plants' delivered by Francis Darwin at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 16 September 1901 and published in Nature on 14 November 1901, and offprint of the President's Address delivered by Francis Darwin at the Dublin meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 2 September 1908., (image 508, page 15:1r) DAR 274:16: Obituary Notice for Francis Darwin / Offprint of obituary notice of Francis Darwin (with photographic portrait) from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, Vol. 110., (image 552, page 16:1r) DAR 274:17: Poem for Leonard Darwin by Frances Crofts Darwin / Manuscript poem written by Frances Darwin for 'Uncle Lenny'. On reverse is inscription "written by Frances (Cornford) when a young girl at Egerton Place , L. Darwin"., (image 576, page 17:1r) DAR 274:18: Poems for Leonard Darwin by Bernard Darwin / Two typescript poems written by Bernard Darwin for his uncle, Leonard Darwin, on the occasion of his 80th and 90th birthdays on 15 January 1930 and 1940 respectively., (image 580, page 18:1r)
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    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: Cambridge University Library
    • Classmark: DAR 274
    • Extent: 1 volume
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 1 to 4

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/1
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 5 to 8

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/2
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/3
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Forwards letters.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/4
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/5
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/6
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/7
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD's research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/8
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/9
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has got a cold, so will not go to Kew. Wrote to Hartnack about price of microscopes and describes own model. Told Hooker about Tisley Spiller's microscope in Paris.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/10
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has sent Vichy water, discusses prescription. Tell Arthur Parslow not to continue on colchicum for gout if doesn't suit him. May go to Pryor's on Sunday.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/11
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads' ova does not bear on pangenesis.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/12
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/13
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends list of bills,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/14
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Needs more money to pay his tutoring bills.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/15
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/16
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Explains about the attendance at St George's hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/17
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America.,
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/18
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/19
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/20
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks CD for the cheque. Gives account of money owed for tutoring and tennis.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/21
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/22
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD's paper 'Food bodies' in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/23
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/24
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/25
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/26
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has found Lathyrus maritima on the cliffs near Barmouth.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/27
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/28
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

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    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/29
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends Linnean papers.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 112 to 113

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/30
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / [The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 114 to 118

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/31
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird's Six months in the Sandwich Islands.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 119 to 120

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/32
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 121 to 124

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/33
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sends thanks for CD's help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 125 to 126

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/34
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 127 to 130

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/35
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Returns corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 131 to 134

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/36
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 135 to 138

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/37-38
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.,
    • Extent: 2 sheets
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 139 to 140

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/39
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. His paper went off well.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 141 to 142

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/40
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 143 to 147

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/41
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 148 to 152

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/42
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 153 to 154

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/43
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Many thanks for the pelargonium letter.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 155 to 159

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/44
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has been working hard at Kew for two days.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 160 to 161

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/45
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 162 to 165

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/46
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 166 to 171

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/47
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 172 to 173

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/48
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 174 to 178

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/49
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin / Last night had tremendous thunderstorm. Will ask Goebel about proshelismus. Describes experiments on beans. Please send Bessy's address. Has got to know nice Englishman named Purdy and his wife. Bathes nearly every night with the Finlander.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 179 to 180

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/50
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin (incomplete) /,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 181 to 186

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/51
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded & 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 187 to 188

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/52
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin (incomplete) /,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 189 to 193

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/53
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports on roots and climbing plants experiments he is performing in Sachs' laboratory. Orchids with air roots have come. Goebel says proshelic better than helic.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 194 to 197

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/54
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.,
    • Extent: 2 sheets
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 198 to 202

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/55
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 203 to 206

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/56
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses Müller-Thurgau's work on heliotropism. Will start on Thursday for Heidelberg and Strassburg.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 207 to 208

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/57
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 209 to 210

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/58
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / The Salvia has arrived. Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk. Cannot do any teazel work. Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 211 to 212

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/59
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 213 to 219

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/60
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded & 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 220 to 221

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/61
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 222 to 225

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/62
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Will stay in London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 226 to 230

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/63
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 231 to 232

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/64
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Sorry he forgot the gardener's address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace's working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 233 to 237

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/65
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 238 to 242

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/66
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 243 to 247

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/67
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 248 to 251

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/68
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Thanks for two letters from Pfeffer. Will return translation of Pfeffer and send a letter from Elfring. Looking forward to working on "antiWiesner" experiments. Will return on 26th or 27th.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 252 to 256

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/69
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 257 to 261

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/70
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 262 to 265

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/71
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Reports de Bary's opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 266 to 271

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/72
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfring. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD's protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 272 to 277

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/73
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of 'Växtbook' from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 278 to 279

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/74
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 280 to 281

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/75
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?,
    • Extent: 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 282 to 287

    • Classmark: DAR 274:1/76
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to Charles Darwin / Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 288 to 328

    • Classmark: DAR 274:2
    • Title: Letters from Francis Darwin to his sister, Henrietta Emma Darwin / A collection of eight letters from Francis to Henrietta (1843-1927). None of the letters are dated but two are sent from Clapham Grammar School where Francis was a pupil until 1866 and it is thought the reminder were written by Francis when he was a student at Cambridge from 1866 to 1870. The letters give news from school and university.,
    • Extent: 8 sheets folded & 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 329 to 333

    • Classmark: DAR 274:3
    • Title: Letter from Francis Darwin to his mother, Emma Darwin / Single letter from Francis to his mother written from Clapham Grammar School. The letter is undated but thought to have been written in the summer of 1866 in his last term. Francis thanks his mother for a cheque and describes arrangements for an Old Fellows' Cricket match.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 334 to 345

    • Classmark: DAR 274:4
    • Title: Letters from Emma Darwin to Francis Darwin / A collection of three letters from Emma Darwin to Francis. Two of the letters are dated (5 June 1878 amd 22 July 1879 respectively - the latter is incomplete) and the third is thought to have been sent before 26 August 1880. The letters convey news of Frank's son Bernard and other family members.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 346 to 365

    • Classmark: DAR 274:5
    • Title: Letters from Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / A collection of five letters from Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. None of the letters are dated. The first of the letters is concerned with arrangements for a possible first visit by Mary Ruck and her daughter Amy to Down House. Subsequent letters carry news of Amy and Frank's son Bernard and other family members.,
    • Extent: 4 sheets folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 366 to 369

    • Classmark: DAR 274:6
    • Title: Letter from Emma Darwin to Bernard Darwin / Single undated letter from Emma Darwin to her grandson Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) in which she describes some of her activities during a stay in Brighton.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 370 to 374

    • Classmark: DAR 274:7
    • Title: Letter from Emma Darwin to Ellen Wordsworth Darwin / Single letter dated 11 July [1888] from Emma Darwin to her daughter-in-law Ellen Wordsworth Darwin née Crofts (1856-1903), second wife of Francis Darwin in which she describes a gathering of family and friends at Down House.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 375 to 400

    • Classmark: DAR 274:8
    • Title: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy / Collection of five letters sent from Amy Richenda Ruck, first wife of Francis Darwin, to Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy (1852-1928) between 1868 and [1874]. Elizabeth visited Australia in 1872 and in 1877 married Amy's elder brother Arthur Ashley Ruck (1847-1939). The letters carry news of family and mutual acquaintances and Amy's preparations for her forthcoming marriage to Francis.,
    • Extent: 4 sheets folded & 2 sheets
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 401 to 472

    • Classmark: DAR 274:9
    • Title: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Mary Catherine G. D'Arcy / Collection of 14 letters (stitched together) from Amy Ruck to Mary D'Arcy (1850-1927), elder sister of Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy sent throughout 1873. During 1873 Mary and Elizabeth 'Elly' were in Australia and Amy's letters are full of news from home.,
    • Extent: 14 sheets folded & 8 sheets
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 473 to 483

    • Classmark: DAR 274:10
    • Title: Letters from Amy Richenda Ruck to Francis Darwin / Two letters from Amy Ruck to Francis Darwin sent in May 1874, a few weeks before their marriage on 23 July. The letters discuss ideas for furnishing their home and the purchase of various items.,
    • Extent: 2 sheets folded & 1 sheet
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 484 to 487

    • Classmark: DAR 274:11
    • Title: Letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Single letter from Henrietta Emma Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. The letter is undated but is presumed to have been written before Henrietta's mrriage to Richard Buckley Litchfield on 31 August 1871. In the letter Henrietta sends her apologies for cancelling an appointment with a 'Sir Roger'.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 488 to 499

    • Classmark: DAR 274:12
    • Title: Letters from Elizabeth Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Two letters from Elizabeth Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck (1822-1905) née Matthews, mother of Amy Richenda Ruck (1850-1876), first wife of Francis Darwin. The letters are dated 1 August [1884] and 13 January [1897] and carry family news, particularly of Mary's grandson Bernard and of a visit by Elizabeth to Mrs Anne Isabella Ritchie (1837-1919), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray in [1896].,
    • Extent: 3 sheets folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 500 to 503

    • Classmark: DAR 274:13
    • Title: Letter from Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin to Francis Darwin / Single letter from Bernard Darwin to his father, Francis Darwin, dated 28 April 1886. The letter describes time spent whilst staying with his paternal grandmother in Cambridge.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 504 to 507

    • Classmark: DAR 274:14
    • Title: Letter from Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin to Mary Anne Ruck / Single letter from Bernard Darwin to his maternal grandmother, Mary Ruck dated 22 September 1893 thanking her for sending him two photographs (one presumbed to be of his father Francis as a young man) and a piece of writing by his mother Amy.,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 508 to 551

    • Classmark: DAR 274:15
    • Title: British Association for the Advancement of Science: Lecture and Address by Francis Darwin / Offprint for a lecture on 'The Movements of Plants' delivered by Francis Darwin at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 16 September 1901 and published in Nature on 14 November 1901, and offprint of the President's Address delivered by Francis Darwin at the Dublin meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 2 September 1908.,
    • Extent: Small pamphlet: 8 pages; Big pamphlet: 14 pages
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 552 to 575

    • Classmark: DAR 274:16
    • Title: Obituary Notice for Francis Darwin / Offprint of obituary notice of Francis Darwin (with photographic portrait) from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, Vol. 110.,
    • Extent: 14 pages
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 576 to 579

    • Classmark: DAR 274:17
    • Title: Poem for Leonard Darwin by Frances Crofts Darwin / Manuscript poem written by Frances Darwin for 'Uncle Lenny'. On reverse is inscription "written by Frances (Cornford) when a young girl at Egerton Place , L. Darwin".,
    • Extent: 1 sheet folded
    • Material: Paper

    Section shown in images 580 to 587

    • Classmark: DAR 274:18
    • Title: Poems for Leonard Darwin by Bernard Darwin / Two typescript poems written by Bernard Darwin for his uncle, Leonard Darwin, on the occasion of his 80th and 90th birthdays on 15 January 1930 and 1940 respectively.,
    • Extent: 4 sheets
    • Material: Paper
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