To Emma Wedgwood [31 December 1838 –] 1 January 1839
Summary
Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.
Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-466 |
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- … from Emma Wedgwood, [3 January 1839] , and letter to Emma Wedgwood, [6–7 January 1839] . …
- … 1 January 1839 was a Tuesday. As the letter makes clear, CD began it on the evening of …
- … 1839 | And the first of Our Marriage My dear Emma Many thanks for your two most kind, dear, & affectionate letters, …
Moore, Thomas. 1839. Life, letters, and journals of Lord Byron. London: John Murray.
To William Herbert [c. 1 April 1839]
Summary
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Date: | [c. 1 Apr 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-502 |
To Reginald Darwin 27 March 1879
Summary
Announces his intention to translate and preface [E. Krause’s] sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life. Asks whether RD has any documents concerning Dr Darwin or letters by him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | Forum Auctions (dealers) (28 March 2019, lot 173) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11957 |
To William Shoberl [21 March 1839]
Summary
Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl; Henry Colburn |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-501 |
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- … pp. 33–4, and letter from Robert FitzRoy, [20 March 1839] , n. 1). This announcement had …
- … that it was written soon after the letter from Robert FitzRoy, [20 March 1839] . However, …
- … endorsement, ‘1839’, is in the distinctive hand attributed to Shoberl in other letters in …
- … letter may not have been inserted in CD’s volume of the Narrative, but only in the separately printed Journal of researches (see n. 3). An announcement of the forthcoming publication, by Smith, Elder & Co . of a single-volume work on the geology of the Beagle voyage was inserted with sixteen pages of Colburn book advertisements dated August 1839 …
From John Murray 3 February [1869]
Summary
Gives consent, which is unnecessary because term of protection has expired, for French translation of Journal of researches.
Is at a loss to know how many copies of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin to print.
The printer is ready for copy for a new "edition" of Variation. [Presumably another issue. 2d edition did not appear until 1875.]
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 363 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6597 |
From William Herbert to J. S. Henslow 5 April 1839
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions on plant hybridisation and laws of inheritance. Rejects predominant transmission of characters by established forms. Males show predominance, but congeniality of parents’ constitution to climate and soil more important. No correlation between hybridisation and variability, cultivation, and geographical distribution. Rejects reversion.
Describes experiments in Hippeastrum in which pollen from another species proved more fertile than plant’s own pollen.
Did not intend to say that crossing is inimical to fertility.
| Author: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-503 |
From J. M. Herbert 13 January [1839]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement, with a gift.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-487 |
From Robert FitzRoy 26 February 1838
Summary
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1838 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-403 |
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- … of a review (see letter from Robert FitzRoy, [20 March 1839] ). See letter to J. S. …
- … letter, Phillip Parker King ’s narrative of the early voyage of the Beagle and Adventure, were already in print, though publication did not take place until FitzRoy had finished his volume and its appendix in 1839. …
To Alphonse de Candolle 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends Origin as testimony to great benefit CD derived from AdeC’s works on distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2523 |
To William Whewell 4 [January 1839]
Summary
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 4 [Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-483 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 April [1876]
Summary
Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 62–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10477 |
From John Grant Malcolmson 24 July 1839
Summary
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
| Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 7–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-528 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … s information in this letter and his letter of 31 August 1839 is used in Coral reefs , …
- … 1839 My Dear Sir, I am sorry that I can only spare a few minutes to answer your letter, as …
- … 1839, 1859 . T. M. Ward 1830 . Low 1836 . John Shier . In Notebook A : 146 (DAR 127) CD noted: ‘G. J. Malcolmson has described formation of shore of Coromandel, just same as at Bahia Blanca—letter …
Humboldt, Alexander von. 1839. On the longitude of Valparaiso and Callao, in a letter from Baron Alexander von Humboldt. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 9: 502–6.
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
To Charles Stokes [January–March 1842]
Summary
Returns snuff box.
Sends a microscope for repair.
Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Stokes |
| Date: | [Jan–Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-613A |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
From William Lonsdale 15 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges Journal of researches.
| Author: | William Lonsdale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-521 |
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- … has been found. A letter from Alexander Caldcleugh dated 18 February 1839, which may have …
- … letter on the same subject has been received from M r . Caldcleugh and the details are generally the same. — If you could find leisure I shall be happy to shew you M r . C’s notice. — Believe me to be | My dear Darwin | Ever gratefully & Sincerely y rs | W m . Lonsdale Saturday Ev g . 15 th June 1839 …
To William Shoberl 16 August [1839]
Summary
Gives his opinion of a MS on geology. It is not really a scientific work. It might sell well, but CD’s opinion on success of sale is worthless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-531 |
To J. S. Henslow [10 November 1839]
Summary
Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.
Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.
"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [10 Nov 1839] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-543 |
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Variation in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
Summary
Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
