From Robert FitzRoy 16 November 1837
Summary
CD’s response [missing] comes from the heart. RF explains that CD’s preface [to Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative] offended him in not acknowledging the part RF and the other officers had in helping CD. Beagle voyage was the first on which officers could have kept any specimens they collected, but they gave preference to CD.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-387 |
To J. S. Henslow [19 November 1837]
Summary
Asks JSH to look over the prospectus [for Zoology]. Has one more chapter of Journal of researches to finish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 44 DAR/1/1/44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-388 |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [early December 1837?]
Summary
Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.
Advice on a medicine CD is taking.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early Dec 1837?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-390 |
To Leonard Jenyns 3 December [1837]
Summary
CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.
Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-391 |
To Leonard Jenyns [4 December 1837]
Summary
Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [4 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-392 |
To W. D. Fox [11 December 1837]
Summary
Writes following his visit to WDF.
Mentions fossils Fox has collected.
News of Albert Way.
Hensleigh Wedgwood has resigned his post because of scruples about taking oaths.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [11 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 53) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-393 |
To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Summary
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
| letter | (71) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (12) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (68) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (14) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
