CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

December 1876 wrote Sophy W. E. D — [William Erasmus Darwin] December 1876 Sunday, 10 December 1876 Monday, 11 December 1876 Tuesday, 12 December 1876 wr. G. H D — [George Howard Darwin] Wednesday, 13 December 1876 Thursday, 14 December 1876 Friday, 15 December 1876 Saturday, 16 December 1876 Marshall came December 1876 Sunday, 17 December 1876 Monday, 18 December 1876 Tuesday, 19 December 1876 Wednesday, 20 December 1876 G. came Thursday, 21 December 1876 Friday, 22 December 1876 Wm came Saturday

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

[William Erasmus Darwin] eat well. pretty good night flat took only 14 days head. [sketch] January 1840 [5 January — 18 January 1840 not microfilmed] Sunday, 19 January 1840 Monday, 20 January 1840 weighed the baby 3 wks 3 days old 8 lbs 3 oz [-] 1 — 6 [=] lbs 6 — 13 oz [+] 13 [=] 7 — 10 Tuesday, 21 January 1840 Wednesday, 22 January 1840 Thursday, 23 January 1840 Friday, 24 January 1840 Saturday, 25 January 1840 January 1840 Sunday, 26 January 1840 Monday, 27 January 1840 Tuesday, 28 January 1840

CUL-DAR227.8.31    Printed:    1839   Macdonald's Multum in parvo inerleaved pocket-book almanack for the year of our Lord 1839. London: R. Macdonald.   Text   Image   PDF

M   19 April   N. A[illeg] 24 April 29 April    -told me  [Possibly the date when Emma Darwin informed Darwin that she was pregnant. The Darwin were married on 29 January 1839. William Erasmus Darwin was born on 27 December 1839.] [page 7

A677    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1839. [Birth of William Erasmus Darwin]. The Times (30 December): 8.   Text

Anon. 1839. [Birth of William Erasmus Darwin]. The Times (30 December): 8. [page] 8 On the 27th inst, at Upper Gower-street, the lady of Charles Darwin, Esq., of a son

F1731    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1864. On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. [Read 16 June] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 8: 169-196, 1 text figure.   Text   Image   PDF

very short, not one-third of the length of that of the long-styled form. It is enclosed within the calyx, which, differently from in the other two forms, 1 William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914), Darwin's eldest child. The drawings survive in DAR27.2. [page] 17

CUL-DAR135.16    Printed:    1877.07.00   Biographical sketch of an infant `Mind': (offprint presentation copy)   Text   Image   PDF

historian. Taine 1877 was a translation of Taine 1876. 2 Darwin refers to his notes on his first-born son William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914) kept between 1839 and 1841 (CUL-DAR210.11.37). In his Autobiography (pp. 131-2) Darwin wrote: My first child was born on December 27th, 1839, and I at once commenced to make notes on the first dawn of the various expressions which he exhibited, for I felt convinced, even at this early period, that the most complex and fine shades of expression must all have

YorkProbateSubRegistry    Legal:    1881.09.27--1882.06.06   Last will and testament of Charles Robert Darwin   Text   Image

1881-1882. Last will and testament of Charles Robert Darwin. YorkProbateSubRegistry [1] On the 6th day of June 1882 the Will with Codicil thereto of Charles Robert Darwin formerly of but late of Down near Beckenham in the County of Kent Esquire deceased, who died on the 19th day of April 1882 at Down aforesaid was proved in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, by the Oaths of William Erasmus Darwin of Southampton in the County of Southampton Banker and

YorkProbateSubRegistry    Legal:    1881.09.27--1882.06.06   Last will and testament of Charles Robert Darwin   Text   Image

absolute use and benefit with a proportionate part thereof up to the day of her decease and from and after the decease of my said wife Upon trust that they the said William Erasmus Darwin and George Howard Darwin or my two eldest surviving sons at the time of my decease or the survivor of them their or his executors administrators and assigns do and shall stand and be possessed of the said trust premises. Upon trust for all and every of my children by my said wife Emma Darwin now living in such manner

YorkProbateSubRegistry    Legal:    1881.09.27--1882.06.06   Last will and testament of Charles Robert Darwin   Text   Image

Butler to Charles Robert Darwin Esqr of Down Kent. Proved at London 4th June 1882 by the hands of William Erasmus Darwin and George Howard Darwin Esquire the Sons the Executors to whom Admon was granted

A229    Periodical contribution:     Anon. [The will of Erasmus Alvey Darwin]. The Times (7 October): 4.   Text

Anon. [The will of Erasmus Alvey Darwin]. The Times (7 October): 4. [page] 4 WILLS and BEQUESTS.—The will, dated June 9, 1880, of Mr. Erasmus Alvey Darwin, late of 6, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, who died on August 26 last was proved on the 21st ult. by William Erasmus Darwin and George Howard Darwin, the nephews, the executors, the value of the personal estate exceeding £157,000. The testator leaves all his real estate and his residence, with the household furniture and effects, to

A1202    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Death of Professor Darwin. The Bromley Record (1 May): 46-7.   Text   PDF

was met by members of the family and others, as follows:- Mr. William Erasmus Darwin, chief mourner; Mr George Darwin, F.R.S., Mrs. William Darwin, Miss Darwin, Mrs. Litchfield, Mr. Francis Darwin, Mr. R. B. Litchfield, Mr. Horace Darwin, Mr Leonard Darwin, R.E., Mr Darwin, of Elston Hall, Mr. F. Alvey Darwin, Captain Charles Darwin, Mr. Reginald Darwin, of Buxton, Mrs. Vaughan Williams, Miss Wedgwood, the Rev. Charles Parker, Mr. Robert Parker, Mr. H. F. Bristowe, Q.C., Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S

CUL-DAR140.5.3    Note:    1882.04.26   List of mourners for information of the Press   Text   Image   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] List of mourners for information of the Press Chief mourner Mr. William Erasmus Darwin Mr. George Darwin F.R.S Miss Darwin Mr. Francis Darwin Mr. Horace Darwin Mrs Wm Darwin Mrs. Litchfield Mr. RB Litchfield Mr. Leonard Darwin R.E Mr. Horace Darwin ---------- Mr. Darwin of Elston Hall Capt. Charles Darwin Mr. Vaughan Williams Mr Rev. Charles Parker Mr. H. F. Bristowe Q.C. Mr. Ernest Wedgwood Mr. T. H. Farrer, Secretary of Board of Trade Mr

A2969    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. Funeral of the late Mr. Charles Darwin. Stratford-upon-Avon Herald (28 April): 5.   Text   Image

the simple grave prepared, as already described, for their reception in the north aisle. On the previous evening the body had been removed in a plain hearse from Downe Court, Kent─ a hilly journey of sixteen miles by road─followed by two of the five sons of the deceased, Mr. William Erasmus Darwin, the chief mourner, and Mr. George Darwin. Arrived at the Abbey, in the dusk of evening, the coffin was at once placed in the chapel of St. Faith, which lies unobserved, and even unnoticed by the

CUL-DAR210.5.36    Note:    [1884].01.15   Memoranda as to Father [recollection of Charles Robert Darwin]   Text   Image

but a little formidable...Sedgwicks, Eliots and Nortons are not to be lightly encountered . B. Darwin, Green memories, 1928, p. 42. 1877 Nov. 29 Married William Erasmus Darwin. ED wrote often to S with the last letter perhaps 1896 Sept. 19. Paul van Helvert and John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021. 36

CUL-DAR211.95    Correspondence:   Darwin Bernard Richard Meirion from Darwin L  1906.03.30   Darwin Bernard Richard Meirion from Darwin L   Text   Image

some little help to make the pot boil, say £50 or £75 a year, which I hope you will continue to accept till you are a KC or the briefs roll in very rapidly. I want again to talk to William [William Erasmus Darwin, 1839-1914] before deciding on the exact figure. The future is always hid, but, as far as one can judge, my money will eventually find its way into the pockets of my nephews and nieces. But, be that as it may, I should like to feel that in my lifetime I have given you some trifling

A279    Pamphlet:     Darwin, George and Francis Darwin eds. 1909. Darwin celebration, Cambridge, June, 1909. Speeches delivered at the banquet held on June 23rd. Cambridge: Cambridge Daily News.   Text   PDF

Mr. WILLIAM ERASMUS DARWIN said: Chancellor, your Excellencies, my Lords and Gentlemen, I need hardly say that this assemblage of distinguished men, met together from all quarters of the world to do honour to his memory, would have almost overwhelmed my father, and I am very conscious of the great difficulties that meet me and of the very great honour that is paid me in being called upon to express the feelings of my family on this occasion. I remember that my father once wrote to Sir Joseph

A2816    Periodical contribution:     [Frederick Belding Power]. 1909. Biographical sketch of Charles Darwin and the Darwin commemoration at Cambridge.   Text   PDF

followed by an appreciation from Dr. Svante Arrhenius, of Stockholm, and Mr. William Erasmus Darwin, who replied, gave some charming reminiscences of his father's home life. The concluding toast was The University of Cambridge, given by the Vice Chancellor. After the banquet an At Home was held by the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College in their grounds, which were brilliantly illuminated for the occasion. On June 24 the celebration was continued, at the Senate House, by the presentation of

McGill-CA-OSLER0-P110[.157]    Printed:    1909.02.00   The Bookman. Darwin centenary number, no. 209, vol. 35 (February 1909)   Text   Image   PDF

FOUR SURVIVING SONS OF CHARLES DARWIN. [Photograph] Sir George Howard Darwin, K.C.B. Photo by Russell Sons. [Photograph] Mr. Francis Darwin. Photo by Palmer Clarke, Cambridge. [Photograph] Major Leonard Darwin. Photo by Thomson, 141, New Bond Street, W. [Photograph] Mr. Horace Darwin. Photo by R. H. Lord, Cambridge. [Darwin's oldest son William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914) was still alive.] [page] 21

A554    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, Francis. 1914. [Obituary of] William Erasmus Darwin. Christ's College Magazine 29: 16-23.   Text   Image

Darwin, F. 1914. [Obituary of] William Erasmus Darwin. Christ's College Magazine 29: 16-23. [page] 16 WILLIAM ERASMUS DARWIN, 1839-1914 BY HIS BROTHER FRANCIS DARWIN WILLIAM ERASMUS DARWIN, the eldest child of Charles Darwin, was born December 27, 1839, at 12 Upper Gower Street, where his father settled on his marriage with Emma Wedgwood. The house has now lost all individuality, being swallowed up in a block of buildings for the employ s of Shoolbred. This Gower St. home had practically no

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

had a bad accident out riding, and Leonard had fallen at lawn tennis and injured his knee. 2 The wax coating on leaves which makes them come out dry after being dipped in water. 3 This short account of William Darwin was written after his death by his brother Francis: William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914). His was a perennially youthful spirit, and the sweetness of his expressive face was but little marked by sorrow or anxiety. One seemed to see in it both the happy directness of youth and the

CUL-DAR132.1    Printed:    [1946]   'Historical and descriptive catalogue of the Darwin Memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent' [London]: 35pp   Text   Image

*Notes on his will, and letters from his son William Erasmus Darwin on his estate. Papers relating to Darwin's funeral in Westminster Abbey, April 26, 1882, and page of MS. of sermon by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, in the Abbey on the Sunday after Darwin's death: '. . . I think that the interment of the remains of Mr. Darwin in Westminster Abbey is in accordance with the judgment of the wisest of his countrymen. . . . It would have been unfortunate if anything had occurred to give

F1595    Periodical contribution:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1959. Some unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 14: 12-66.   Text   PDF

. Yours is a fine country, and your children will see it a very great one. With every good wish for your health and prosperity, I am, dear Covington, yours sincerely Ch. Darwin 1 Reprinted from The Sydney Mail, 9 Aug. 1884. 2 William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914). 3 The post of Naval Officer of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. 4 Sir William MacArthur (1800-1882), Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. [page] 2

F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

you writing a note, viz can you advise us what I ought to allow my eldest son2 who goes to X [Christ's] Coll. in October per annum to cover ALL his expenses whatever. I can afford shd wish to give him a liberal allowance, but not to encourage extravagance. 1 Henrietta, born 1843, married R. B. Litchfield 1871. 2 William Erasmus Darwin, 1839-1914. Became a banker in Southampton. [page] 19

A691    Pamphlet:     [Titheradge, Philip]. 1981. The Charles Darwin memorial at Down House, Downe, Kent. [St. Ives, Cornwall: B. Tempest & Co.]   Text   PDF

. *Private ledger. *Cheques. *Darwin's reckoning of receipts from sales of his books. The total at the end of the year 1881 is 10,248. Notes on health and weight. *Prescriptions; notebooks with prescriptions for the children; nature notes. *Catalogue of Down House specimens. *Notes on plants on the lawn at Down House and seeds in the Sandwalk. *Notes on the well at Down House. *Notes on his will; letters from his son, William Erasmus Darwin, on the estate. *Charles Darwin's address book. Centre Table

A303    Book:     Freeman, R. B. 1984. Darwin Pedigrees. London: printed for the author.   Text   Image   PDF

Catty — Emily Caroline Langton, 1810-1866. Cellarius — Samuel Butler, II, 1835-1902. Cherbury — John Maurice Herbert, 1808-1882, from Baron Herbert of Cherbury. Chucky — Susan Elizabeth Darwin, 1803-1866. Cid, The — Sydney Smith, 1771-1845. Clarke — John Clarke Hawkshaw, 1841-1921. Cool of the evening — Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885. Darwin's bulldog — Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895. Darwin's true knight — Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913. Doddy — William Erasmus Darwin