To J. L. Stokes 3 November 1846
Summary
CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | 3 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017 |
To J. L. Stokes [c. 26 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.
Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [c. 26 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1020 |
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
Summary
Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
To John Lort Stokes [after 31 May 1837]
Summary
Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [after 31 May 1837] |
Classmark: | Stokes 1846, 1: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356F |
To John Lort Stokes [November–December 1845]
Summary
Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [Nov–Dec 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-940 |