To Charles Babbage [14 March 1837 – 31 December 1838]
Summary
Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [14 Mar 1837 – 31 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-349 |
To Charles Babbage [1838]
Summary
CD is much obliged for invitations to CB’s parties, but is afraid to accept because he would meet people to whom he has sworn he never goes out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-351 |
To Charles Babbage [21 January 1838]
Summary
Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [21 Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-357 |
To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
To Charles Babbage [February 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [Feb 1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-470 |
To Charles Babbage [October 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [Oct 1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 296) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-474 |
To Charles Babbage [1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 37191: 297) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-476 |
To Charles Babbage 19 [February 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-479 |
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 26 May [1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (9) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
