To W. H. Miller 1 December [1860]
Summary
Must prepare new edition of Origin.
Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hallowes Miller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564 |
To Charles Lyell 2 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on note from Charles Kingsley saying CD’s theory is not opposed to a high conception of the Deity.
Mentions negative views of Origin of Sedgwick, John Crawfurd, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, and Joseph Prestwich.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2565 |
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
Author: | Edward Sabine |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
To Bernhard Studer 20 January [1847]
Summary
Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].
Sends copy of South America.
Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 20 Jan [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1054 |
To J. S. Henslow 30 [August 1831]
Summary
Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.
[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.
Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 30 [Aug 1831] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-107 |
To Francis Beaufort 1 September [1831]
Summary
CD accepts going with Capt. FitzRoy. Explains earlier refusal as owing to his father’s disapproval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Beaufort |
Date: | 1 Sept [1831] |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM 1/4541 PRO D 262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-112 |
From Leonard Jenyns 31 December 1861
Summary
Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3355 |
To Daniel Sharpe [23 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on manuscript [? "On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1849): 111–29]. Discusses phenomenon of cleavage. Will write to J. D. Forbes about DS’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (PEARSON/10/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1083 |
To William Lonsdale 6 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 6 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, pp. 436–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080A |
To Baden Powell 18 January [1860]
Summary
CD is pleased by BP’s appreciative opinion of Origin. He never intended to claim that he originated the doctrine that species have not been independently created. The only novelty in his work is the attempt to explain how species became modified and how the theory of descent explains large classes of facts. If he has taken anything from BP, he has done so unconsciously. Gives names of those he would have mentioned in any account of authors who maintained that species have not been separately created.
CD greatly admires BP’s Philosophy of creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Baden Powell |
Date: | 18 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2654 |
From Charles Lyell 23 April 1855
Summary
CL would like to put Joachim Barrande on the Royal Society’s foreign list. Of French geologists and palaeontologists, he is the man who has made the greatest sacrifices and produced the greatest results.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1855 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1672 |
To J. S. Henslow [30–1 October 1836]
Summary
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [30–1 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-317 |
To Daniel Sharpe [1 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [1 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1016 |
To Richard Owen 13 December [1859]
Summary
Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2580 |
To A. C. Ramsay 19 October 1871
Summary
Thanks ACR for papers.
Glad present situation of our continents has been confirmed.
Wishes ACR would prove his view of origin of Red Sandstones, which many dispute.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 9 (EH 88205982) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8019 |
To W. B. Dawkins 3 February 1873
Summary
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 3 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757F |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 July 1836
Summary
Asks JSH to propose him for Geological Society. His meeting with Sir John Herschel and Andrew Smith at Cape of Good Hope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 July 1836 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 30 DAR/1/1/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-304 |
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