CUL-DAR108.29-31    Note:    [Undated]   Equal-styled varieties of P[rimula] Sinensis   Text   Image

ordinary long-sty, when fert. by same form. This led me to examine plant from other places, with following results but as late in season in some places few left in flower. Rookery Ducks} Horwood Chichester Barston Holwood High Elms Westerham our seedlings of 1 greater from bought seed Long-styled 20 0 12 30 42 16 1 13 [total] 134 Short-styled 0 0 9 18 12 0 5 7 [total] 51 Equal-styled Var. 9 17 2 15 of a different family 0 0 0 0 [total] 43 As I obtained from pods plants legit. fert, the same number

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

went to Whitby Thunder also in night Thursday, 25 June 1896 wr H E L – 58° Friday, 26 June 1896 wr Horace saw Parslow B. Dora to Knole Saturday, 27 June 1896 wr H E L – B. Dora to play in London Knole [crossed] drove in Holwood Park Dora went June — July 1896 Sunday, 28 June 1896 !! 68 wr Mabel saw Anne Monday, 29 June 1896 out in road beyond Luxted Eliza Bromwich came Tuesday, 30 June 1896 saw Mrs Sales Wednesday, 1 July 1896 wr L L £5 wr H E L G. M. Shaen came Lady D Mrs Hart Down Thursday, 2

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

[title page] Harwood's Diamond Diary with An Almanack for 1875 January 1875 Sunday, 3 January 1875 went to ch. Monday, 4 January 1875 called at High Elms Tuesday, 5 January 1875 Wednesday, 6 January 1875 Thursday, 7 January 1875 Friday, 8 January 1875 Wm came beaut warm weather Saturday, 9 January 1875 Lushingtons came Litches January 1875 Sunday, 10 January 1875 Monday, 11 January 1875 Lushingtons went Tuesday, 12 January 1875 Wednesday, 13 January 1875 dined at Holwood w. B. Horace Thursday

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

1895 Began w. Anne B. W. Mlle Gonin to Down – wr. C. P. £25 Tuesday, 27 August 1895 wr B. !! Wednesday, 28 August 1895 wr G little Audrey to tea !!! Thursday, 29 August 1895 wr Godfrey – G. Maud to Holwood Friday, 30 August 1895 wr M. Shaen !! party to blackberry in Holwood Lady D – £25 Saturday, 31 August 1895 wr H – !!! September 1895 Sunday, 1 September 1895 wr Sara Bessy !!! Monday, 2 September 1895 wr Bee !! Tuesday, 3 September 1895 !! G. to E. Grenstead saw Lady Musgrove Wednesday, 4

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

Eliz came September 1856 27 Sunday, 7 September 1856 Monday, 8 September 1856 G, went to school Ch. dined at Holwood Tuesday, 9 September 1856 Wednesday, 10 September 1856 Missed 7 Thursday, 11 September 1856 Miss L. marriage Friday, 12 September 1856 Saturday, 13 September 1856 Came to L.H P. [Leith Hill Place] September 1856 28 Sunday, 14 September 1856 fine day. Monday, 15 September 1856 Cold wind pipe Tuesday, 16 September 1856 Wednesday, 17 September 1856 Missed Thursday, 18 September 1856

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

June 1874 T Appleton Saturday, 20 June 1874 Litches / lunched at Fr. H. Holwood dark dull day June 1874 Sunday, 21 June 1874 Monday, 22 June 1874 Tuesday, 23 June 1874 Wednesday, 24 June 1874 Thursday, 25 June 1874 Leo. went Alice Hutch came Thunder showers Friday, 26 June 1874 rain Saturday, 27 June 1874 Showers A. Ruck. June — July 1874 Sunday, 28 June 1874 rain till 4 – Monday, 29 June 1874 Tuesday, 30 June 1874 Alice went fine rainy night Wednesday, 1 July 1874 mg. Thursday, 2 July 1874

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

July 1877 Friday, 13 July 1877 Hensleigh Saturday, 14 July 1877 Gurneys July 1877 Sunday, 15 July 1877 Monday, 16 July 1877 Tuesday, 17 July 1877 Wednesday, 18 July 1877 Thursday, 19 July 1877 Friday, 20 July 1877 Saturday, 21 July 1877 S. Sedg — [Sarah Price Ashburner Sedgwick, 1839-1902] July 1877 Sunday, 22 July 1877 Monday, 23 July 1877 Tuesday, 24 July 1877 Wednesday, 25 July 1877 Thursday, 26 July 1877 garden party at Holwood Friday, 27 July 1877 beaut weather Litches. Saturday, 28 July 1877

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

Friday, 18 June 1886 cold N. E wind Saturday, 19 June 1886 June 1886 Sunday, 20 June 1886 Monday, 21 June 1886 came to Down met G. Maud Carrie v. cold Tuesday, 22 June 1886 r. better quite well all week Wednesday, 23 June 1886 wind changed to S. !! Thursday, 24 June 1886 !!! Friday, 25 June 1886 !!! G. Maud Carrie went Saturday, 26 June 1886 !!! June 1886 Sunday, 27 June 1886 !! Monday, 28 June 1886 !! Tuesday, 29 June 1886 Drove in Holwood Wednesday, 30 June 1886 !! Little Marriotts came July 1886

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

November 1861 Friday, 22 November 1861 Saturday, 23 November 1861 Ch came home November 1861 Sunday, 24 November 1861 Monday, 25 November 1861 Tuesday, 26 November 1861 Hen went to London soft warm Wednesday, 27 November 1861 Ditto Thursday, 28 November 1861 went to Holwood with Ch. Friday, 29 November 1861 stomach bad Saturday, 30 November 1861 in bed headache December 1861 Sunday, 1 December 1861 frich weiher Creignisz silber weide Monday, 2 December 1861 popanz Emily Thorley came Tuesday, 3 December

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

[front cover] [Printed title] Harwood's Diamond Diary with An Almanack for 1865 January 1865 Sunday, 1 January 1865 M C! Monday, 2 January 1865 C! Tuesday, 3 January 1865 C! Snow Alice called. Wednesday, 4 January 1865 C! Thursday, 5 January 1865 C! Friday, 6 January 1865 C! Effie Elinor called Saturday, 7 January 1865 ! January 1865 Sunday, 8 January 1865 ! went to church Monday, 9 January 1865 called at Ravensbourne Holwood Mrs Edwards Tuesday, 10 January 1865 Wednesday, 11 January 1865

EH88202575    Note:    1839--1882   Charles Darwin's Address Book.   Text   Image

the Holwood estate (including Holwood House) in Kent from his cousin Lord Cranworth in 1868. Airy Hubert. Flamsteed House Greenwich S.E. Hubert Airy (1838-1903), physician and son of the Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. Address used in 1871. In Emma Darwin's diary for 1872. [page 3

CUL-DAR65.42    Note:    [Undated]   Very clean looking chalk from the deepest part of chalk pit between   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 42 Very clean looking chalk from the deepest part of chalk pit between Holwood Leve's Green 20 or 30 feet below surface — Chalk — 46.39 grams, residue 0.27 gramms [calculations] = 0.6 per cent Abinger Two samples of chalk from close below surface — (Laura Forster) I crumbly and reddish in colour chalk = 39.57 gramms residue 1.45 [calculations] = 3.7 per cent Abinger II Cleaner looking hard chalk Chalk = 43.24; Residue = 1.19 [calculations] = 2.8 per

CUL-DAR242[.19]    Note:    1855   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1855]   Text   Image

Friday, 28 September 1855 dined at Holwood Saundersons Saturday, 29 September 1855 September - October 185

CUL-DAR242[.20]    Note:    1856   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1856]   Text   Image

27 Sunday, 7 September 1856 Monday, 8 September 1856 G, went to school Ch. dined at Holwood Tuesday, 9 September 1856 Wednesday, 10 September 1856 Missed 7 Thursday, 11 September 185

CUL-DAR48.A16    Note:    1860.05.23   Horse-chesnut from Ld Cranworth Park   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [A16] Horse-chesnut from Ld Cranworth Park. May 23. 1860 [Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth. Lord Cranworth's country residence, Holwood Park, was a mile and a half north of Down House.] One truss — 87 flowers second 177 third 158 fourth 185 say 150 on average. From Down. 140 rather small truss do 188 fine truss. I examined flowers from 6 different trees of Holwood in all it was clear that many male flowers considerably open before females so

CUL-DAR242[.26]    Note:    1862   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1862]   Text   Image

Sunday, 2 February 1862 Monday, 3 February 1862 F. F came Eliz cam [line crossed out] Tuesday, 4 February 1862 Eliz came Wednesday, 5 February 1862 good day went to Holwd [Holwood] very bad in evg. with con. Thursday, 6 February 1862 Q in village bad in evening Friday, 7 February 1862 very bad day. began pepsine hardly an hour comf in day Saturday, 8 February 1862 good day Miss L. went to London one attack in evg February 186

CUL-DAR108.63-64    Note:    [1862].03.07   I have examined Mr Frys "mid-styled" flowers stigma in all stands in very   Text   Image

in all 15 being of this form, for there is not one primary long-styled in lot, that this form is hereditary: is it retrogression to primordial state? March 7th At Holwood, two mid-styled forms. 42 long-styled [+] 12 short-styled [=] 54 total. — We shall see when all the lots are added up that this species, at least under artificial culture, has a considerable excess of long-styled. [14v

CUL-DAR49.75    Note:    1862.05.00   I am nearly certain that Saxifraga granulosa (Holwood Park) is a dichogam   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 75 May 62 I am nearly certain that Saxifraga granulosa (Holwood Park) is a dichogam.— Dichoga

CUL-DAR161.232    Correspondence:   Cranworth Robert Monsey (Baron [1850]) to Darwin Emma née Wedgwood  1865.04.11   Cranworth Robert Monsey (Baron [1850]) to Darwin Emma née Wedgwood   Text   Image

in indigent circumstances, so that also I must leave to you. We hope to be at Holwood tomorrow for a fortnight, shall try to get a sight of Mr Darwin if he is able to see us as well as of yourself Yours very truly Cranwort

CUL-DAR242[.32]    Note:    1868   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1868]   Text   Image

Sunday, 2 February 1868 Peggy died Monday, 3 February 1868 called at Holwood Ravensbourne Tuesday, 4 February 1868 Called on Mr H Lub Wednesday, 5 February 1868 Thursday, 6 February 1868 Friday, 7 February 1868 Saturday, 8 February 1868 February 186

CUL-DAR242[.32]    Note:    1868   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1868]   Text   Image

Sunday, 24 May 1868 rain all day Monday, 25 May 1868 Em. T. came Tuesday, 26 May 1868 Holwood Lovely weather Wednesday, 27 May 1868 Em went Thursday, 28 May 1868 Friday, 29 May 1868 Hen to Cum. T. Thunder — Saturday, 30 May 1868 June 186

A659    Book contribution:     James, Henry. [1869]. [Recollection of Darwin]. In Dupee, Frederick W. ed. 1956. Autobiography: A small boy and others, notes of a son and brother, the middle years. New York: Criterion Books, p. 515.   Text

of Queen Square. This had been preceded by a luncheon with Charles Darwin, beautifully benignant, sublimely simple, at Down; a memory to which I find attached our incidental wondrous walk—Mrs. Charles Norton, the too near term of her earthly span then smoothly out of sight,1 being my guide for the happy excursion — across a private park of great oaks, which I conceive to have been the admirable Holwood and where I knew my first sense of a matter afterwards, through fortunate years, to be more

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

Dec 31/71/ Boys at Holwood Park castings more crumbling rolled downwards — There was also much crawling on steep slopes of stony field — depends on nature of castings. (5) [Holwood Park is mentioned in Earthworms, p. 263.] Jan 1. Birds every other animal which [touches] the pallets, with [wind] to throw farther down hill than up hill over [CUL-DAR63.1_002

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

Jan 18/72 After late storms much rain examined many scores of castings of field, level, on ordinary grazed pasture (very few castings comparatively with Holwood) at it is certain that all show evidence of having been carried by wind a little to leeward; for all slope gently (like by ice-worn hillocks to N.) to windward steep to leewards — Very many not only steep to leeward, but then summit curl over, really [miniature] course below. It is certain that on land grass-covered surface the Earth

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

Jan 15. [1872] In Mr. Smith Field across lawn, which is not rolled William observed that whole field covered with [illeg] — ie small conical projections, with grass growing on them. There were manifestly castings covered with grass. — Here we see Earth of castings on level surface — others wd be cast up on the sides old ones slightly aside this field kept on same general level. (But I saw in case that wind had apparently blown them over [cite] — Jan 16 Holwood on steep grassy slopes, the

CUL-DAR242[.36]    Note:    1872   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1872]   Text   Image

Sunday, 19 May 1872 Woolners Mr Butler Monday, 20 May 1872 bad headach. Tuesday, 21 May 1872 p. well Bessy to L.H.P. [Leith Hill Place] Club day fine Wednesday, 22 May 1872 v. fine !! Thursday, 23 May 1872 drove to Holwood Friday, 24 May 1872 Saturday, 25 May 1872 May 187

CUL-DAR63.16    Note:    1872.01.18   After late storms & much rain examined many scores of castings of field,   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 16 Jan 18 /72 After late storms much rain examined many scores of castings of field, level, on ordinary grazed pasture (very few castings comparatively with Holwood) at it is certain that all show evidence of having been carried by wind a little to leeward; for all slope gently (like by ice-worn hillocks to N.) to windward steep to leewards — Very many not only steep to leeward, but then summit curl over, really [miniature] course below. It is certain

CUL-DAR242[.38]    Note:    1874   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1874]   Text   Image

Sunday, 14 June 1874 Monday, 15 June 1874 Tuesday, 16 June 1874 Wednesday, 17 June 1874 much rain Thursday, 18 June 1874 School feast 120 children Geo went to Holland Friday, 19 June 1874 T Appleton Saturday, 20 June 1874 Litches / lunched at Fr. H. Holwood dark dull day June 187

CUL-DAR242[.39]    Note:    1875   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1875]   Text   Image

Sunday, 11 July 1875 rain all day Monday, 12 July 1875 fine party at Bromley Common Tuesday, 13 July 1875 tol day Wednesday, 14 July 1875 rain from 12 Thursday, 15 July 1875 rain Friday, 16 July 1875 rain Saturday, 17 July 1875 till P.M F's B to Holwood July 187

CUL-DAR242[.40]    Note:    1876   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1876]   Text   Image

Sunday, 9 July 1876 Monday, 10 July 1876 !!! Tuesday, 11 July 1876 !!! Wednesday, 12 July 1876 went to Holwood Thursday, 13 July 1876 Wm B to Tunbridge Friday, 14 July 1876 2 bos !! Saturday, 15 July 1876 Therm 83 wrote Leo Litches came July 187

F1277    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

TABLE 31. Primula Sinensis. Name of Owner or Place. Long styled Form. Short-styled Form. Equal-styled Variety. Mr. Horwood . . . . . . 0 0 17 Mr. Duck. . . . . . . 20 0 9 Baston. . . . . . . . 30 18 15 Chichester. . . . . . . . 12 9 2 Holwood. . . . . . . . 42 12 0 High Elms. . . . . . . 16 0 0 Westerham. . . . . . . 1 5 0 My own plants from purchased seeds 13 7 0 Total. . . . . . 134 51 43 raised the two forms of the present species in exactly the same number from flowers which had been

CUL-DAR242[.43]    Note:    1879   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1879]   Text   Image

Sunday, 2 February 1879 Monday, 3 February 1879 called at Holwood Tuesday, 4 February 1879 Fr went to Algiers Wednesday, 5 February 1879 went out Thursday, 6 February 1879 Friday, 7 February 1879 Saturday, 8 February 1879 February 187

CUL-DAR64.1.51    Note:    1880.10.15   Worms / (not on Heaths) / On Keston Common in the triangle between the   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 51 Oct 15/ 80 Worms (not on Heaths) On Keston Common in the triangle between the Hayes Keston-Mark roads, north of the path that runs across from Holwood wicket is a high bit of land covered with heath the ground amongst the heath being quite covered with lichen; I walked carefully over this place also pulled up the heath looked among the roots, saw no trace of worms. The Holwood path divides the lower part of this bit of common into two regions, the

F1361    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1881. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. fifth thousand (corrected), and with textual changes. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

of the castings thrown up on the level parts of these same fields. On some fine grassy slopes in Holwood Park, inclined at angles between 8 and 11 30 with the horizon, where the surface apparently had never been disturbed by the hand of man, castings abounded in extraordinary numbers: and a space 16 inches in length transversely to the slope and (6 inches in the line of the slope, was completely coated, between the blades of grass, with a uniform sheet of confluent and subsided castings. Here

CUL-DAR52.F92-F98    Note:    1881.10.00   Spirogyra [application of carbonate of ammonia, alcohol, acetic acid,   Text   Image

Spirogyra The spec. which were placed in sol. of 1 to 1000 on Oct 6th 8˚ am, on Oct 12th 10˚ 30' a.m. look quite green fresh, whereas the spec kept in basin are all dying or dead, so are those in the pond near Holwood.— The green matter consists of spheres or ovals or of normal spiral bands — It is clear that weak solution of C. of amm not injurious— Still much brown granular matter, as much pulpy as ever.— (It is not acted on by Iodide of Potash in from 1/2 to 3/4 of hr. Oct 14th examined

F1404    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. Die Bildung der Ackererde durch die Thätigkeit der Würmer. Translated by J. V. Carus. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. Ch. Darwin's gesammelte Werke. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von J. Victor Carus. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe, vol. 14, part 1.   Text   Image   PDF

, welche friiher gepflugt worden waren, aber gegenwartig ziem­ lich dunn mit armlichem Graswuchs bedeckt waren; viel Excrement­ massen debnten sich den Abhang hinab bis zu einer LangA von 5 Zollen aus, was das Doppelte oder Dreifacbe des gewohnlichen Durchmessers der auf den ebenen Theilen dieser nAmlichen Felder ausgeworfenen Excremente war. Auf einigen scMnen grasigen Abhlingen in Holwood­ Park, die unter Winkeln zwiscben 3° and 11° 30' mit dem Horizonte geneigt waren und auf denen die

F1403    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. Role des vers de terre dans la formation de la terre végétale. Translated by M. Levêque. Preface by Edmond Perrier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

d'averses (25 janvier 1872), on visita deux champs assez escarpés près de Down ; ils avaient autrefois été labourés et se trouvaient maintenant recouverts d'herbe chétive assez menu parsemée, et un grand nombre de déjections s'étendaient sur une longueur de 5 pouces de la pente, ce qui était deux ou trois fois autant que le diamètre ordinaire des déjections déposées sur les parties horizontales des mêmes champs. Sur quelques belles pentes gazonnées du Holwood Park, inclinées sous un angle de 8° à

CUL-DAR210.3.80    Correspondence:   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood to Darwin George Howard  [1883.08.05]   Darwin Emma née Wedgwood to Darwin George Howard   Text   Image

in Holwood Park on Friday— Eau de Nil safely recd ─ There is a curious paper on thought reading in the Spec— That tiresome boy Frank has not told Bernard yet [insertion:] (of his engagement to Ellen Crofts); I cant make him do so — We have had very nice warm weather for a week — I am going to write to Ida — so you need not pass on this. Goodbye my dearly E

A856    Book:     Walford Edward. 1884. Greater London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, vol. 2. London: Cassell   Text   Image

elms, is neatly kept. In it is the monument of Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, Lord Chancellor of England, who died in 1868. It consists of a flat grey granite tomb, with a large cross of red granite. Among other memorials in the churchyard is a marble slab, on which are recorded the deaths of Francis Hastings Toone, Esq., of Keston Lodge, and of his sister, the Countess of Dysart, and of her son, William Felix Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower. Near the lodge of Holwood, not far from the

F1452.3    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

that insufferable grief which the loss of poor dear Annie caused. And this seems to me perfectly natural, for one knows that for years previously * Robert Rolfe, Lord Cranworth, and Lord Chancellor of England, lived at Holwood, near Down. Sir Wm. Hooker; b. 1785, d. 1865. He took charge of the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1840, when they ceased to be the private gardens of the Royal Family. In doing so, he gave up his professorship at Glasgow and with it half of his income. He founded the herbarium

F1528.3    Book:     Darwin, F. ed. 1889. Charles Darwins liv og breve med et kapitel selvbiografi. Translated by Martin Simon Søraas. Fagerstrand pr. Høvig: Bibliothek for de Tusen Hjem. Volume 3.   Text   Image   PDF

aabent v sen. Jeg forstaar meget godt, hvad De siger om den forskjel, der er paa at miste en far og et barn. 1) Robert Rolfe, Lord Cranworhh og Lord Chancellor af England boede paa Holwood ved Down. F. D. 2) Sir Wm. Hooker, f. 1785, d. 1865. Han overtog opsynet med de kongelige» haver i Kew i 1840, da de opberte at v re kongefamiliens-privat-eiendom. Dermed opgav ban professorposten i Glasgow og halvparten af sine indt gter. Han grundede herbariet og bibliothe-ket; i l -bet af 10 aar rykkedes det

A483    Periodical contribution:     Vignoles, O. J. 1893. The home of a naturalist. Good Words 34: 95-101.   Text   Image

is from Hayes, where a carriage may be ordered beforehand; or, if the visitor is equal to it, there lies a glorious walk of five miles before him, over the Blackheath pebble beds which form the tertiary outlier of Hayes and Keston Commons; and then on through the delightful park of Holwood, now belonging to the Earl of Derby, but which a century ago was the property of the great * Non cuivis homini contingit adirc Corinthum. [page] 9

A1118    Periodical contribution:     'Natura'. 1893. [A visit to Downe]. Wanderings in the Kent and Surrey Lanes. Norwood News (24 June): 5.   Text

the crest of an advancing wave, with the vast unexplored and fathomless ocean stretching far, far beyond his limited sight. He was always courteous. kind and helpful to his friends. beloved by his own family, and mindful of old and tried servants. Many stories of this kindness are the free talk of Down, and an old butler who has been pensioned off by the family and lives in the village, is always glad to give plenty of information to anyone who may seek it. […] Keeping round Holwood Park, the

CUL-DAR242[.58]    Note:    1894   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1894]   Text   Image

Sunday, 26 August 1894 wr Louisa L. Geo – !!! children at croquet Monday, 27 August 1894 wr Carry Geo. Cam — [crossed] picnic in Holwood good day Tuesday, 28 August 1894 wr. Cam – Horace went Fr. came – middling Wednesday, 29 August 1894 R. went to Maloja Ida ch. home wr B !! August - September 1894 Thursday, 30 August 1894 wr Wm – baddish day. not down. Friday, 31 August 1894 wr Mrs Cupples out !!! good day – Pauline came Saturday, 1 September 1894 wr Bessy !! out sun mist good day E gain

A2945    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1894. [Recollections of Darwin and John Lubbock]. Darwin's workshop. Bromley and West Kent Telegraph (17 March): 3.   Text

slavery in 1780. There was a great Roman station here within the grounds of and below Holwood Park—where the late Earl of Derby so recently passed away—with historical mounds and remains innumerable. The trees grow, especially beeches and oaks, to magnificent proportions, and can be sat under and enjoyed—for footpaths in plenty pass among them. Nowhere near London do I know a couple of miles square containing so much to charm and reward the cultivated traveller anxious to kill not two but many

CUL-DAR242[.59]    Note:    1895   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1895]   Text   Image

Sunday, 1 September 1895 wr Sara Bessy !!! Monday, 2 September 1895 wr Bee !! Tuesday, 3 September 1895 !! G. to E. Grenstead saw Lady Musgrove Wednesday, 4 September 1895 wr B – Mrs Forrest came Mildred came (rug Thursday, 5 September 1895 Serots to Crystal P. wr B. Friday, 6 September 1895 Lady D. party to Knole Mrs H B. C Alice Thunder at night Saturday, 7 September 1895 Mr Steane 10/- Lady Derby G. M. to Holwood little Parslows to tea. September 189

CUL-DAR242[.60]    Note:    1896   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1896]   Text   Image

Sunday, 23 August 1896 rain warm Monday, 24 August 1896 Lady Derby rain in p.m Tuesday, 25 August 1896 wr Bee – Mrs Smith Katie to tea Wednesday, 26 August 1896 58° ! out at 12 Sibella Ella M' L. in evg cold rain [crossed] Thursday, 27 August 1896 wr Horace Friday, 28 August 1896 Mildred came Anne's 1st read. Saturday, 29 August 1896 Litches went G's Mildred all to Holwood black berrying – Anne did not come August - September 189

CUL-DAR242[.60]    Note:    1896   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1896]   Text   Image

Sunday, 5 July 1896 wr Fr. Mrs Huxley !! Monday, 6 July 1896 Dick Mrs went also Joanna wr. Sara - Tuesday, 7 July 1896 wr Bee Mrs Hux v. hot close Wednesday, 8 July 1896 wr Dickson !! hay cut drove in Holwood Thursday, 9 July 1896 Mrs Whitmore School feast !! Mr Row Isabel 1 Little St Mary Tirran Friday, 10 July 1896 wr Horace hot mg – cool evg. H. R. came - Saturday, 11 July 1896 wr G. Lady D. baddish night sl. deadish July 189

F2360    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Words attributed to Darwin]. T. B. Darwin's Coffin. The Sketch (15 April): 528.   Text

-land and Pitt-land. High Elms, the residence of our Bank Holiday Saint, is close by, while Holwood Park, the seat of the Countess of Derby, is but a stone's throw from the village. Here, it may be remembered, is the famous oak-tree underneath which William Pitt and Wilberforce discussed the slave trade. In the village is to be found a remarkable relic of Dr. Darwin, the existence of which few visitors to Down ever dream of. This is no less a curiosity than the actual coffin in which the

F1552.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

Sept. 16th, 1896. Actually a pleasant, bright day, and Carry and I have been the drive through that new lodge and by the [Holwood] ponds. I cannot but own that there has been some rain after our return. I hope R. will soon be better. Sept. 18th, 1896. According to my book I have been some days without writing to you, but I think I must have sent you some enclosures. On Wednesday we drove that new way up Holwood Park to the Ponds, but it is not nearly so pretty as the other ways, and a much