To the President and Council of the Geological Society of London 24 March 1840
Summary
Regrets that state of his health forces him to resign as one of the Secretaries of the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 24 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/5/8 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-561 |
To the Geological Society of London 28 March [1840]
Summary
Feels he has no choice but to comply with the request of Council that he remain in office. Is reluctant to do so as his health has caused him to miss meetings and he has never once attended without suffering the next day. Cannot hold office beyond next anniversary meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 28 Mar [1840] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/5/56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562 |
From David Milne 28 March 1840
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on South American volcanoes [Trans. of the Geol. Soc. of London, 2d ser., pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing from the side of a hill in Glen Almond.
Author: | David Milne Home |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Milne Home 1891, pp. 69–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562F |
From Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker 30 March 1840
Summary
CD has asked CM whether he can supply William Kemp’s address, and CM passes the enquiry to TW.
Author: | Charles Maclaren |
Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
Date: | 30 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-562G |
To Leonard Jenyns 5 April [1840]
Summary
Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.
Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 5 Apr [1840] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-563 |
To Emma Darwin [5 April 1840]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [5 Apr 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-564 |
From Benjamin Silliman 7 April 1840
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of his Journal of researches which is "not second in interest and instruction to any work of the kind I have ever read".
Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565 |
To William Kemp 1[1] May [1840]
Summary
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | 1[1] May [1840] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565F |
To Thomas Walker 5 May [1840]
Summary
Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
Date: | 5 May [1840] |
Classmark: | Jim Somerville (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565G |
From W. C. Redfield 6 May 1840
Summary
Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.
Author: | William C. Redfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1840 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565H |
From B. J. Sulivan 12 May 1840
Summary
Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-566 |
To Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce 13 May [1840–2]
Summary
Informs correspondent that he wrote to William Walton all that he knew about the guanaco.
Present state of his health prevents his acceptance of invitation to attend the meeting of the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of Arts |
Date: | 13 May [1840-2] |
Classmark: | Royal Society of Arts (RSA/PR/MC/104/10/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-567 |
To John Washington, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 16 May 1840
Summary
Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Washington; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 16 May 1840 |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-568 |
To A. Y. Spearman 20 May 1840
Summary
The fourth number of part one of the Zoology has now been published. The Smith, Elder & Co. account is submitted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 May 1840 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-568A |
To Robert Fitzroy [20 February 1840]
Summary
Cancelled. Same as To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840]. Dated 21 [May 1840], in first edition of the printed Calendar, but cancelled before the second edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [20 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-569 |
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 ? [2 June? 1840]
Summary
Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [2 June? 1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570F |
To J. M. Herbert [after 5 June 1840]
Summary
Writes to find whether the date of the event [JMH’s marriage?] has been fixed.
Has been unwell and does not yet feel up to work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | [after 5 June 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-571 |
To W. D. Fox [7 June 1840]
Summary
Family news.
CD’s health is improving, but he has scarcely put pen to paper in the last half-year, and everything in the publishing line is going backwards.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [7 June 1840] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-572 |
To J. S. Henslow 3 July [1840]
Summary
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 3 July [1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-573 |
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Redfield, W. C. | (3) |
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