To The Royal Geographical Society [30 July 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-767 |
Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…