To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1839–82] |
Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
Letter of recommendation for Syms Covington 29 May 1839
Summary
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-514 |
To Richard Owen [1839 – April 1840]
Summary
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [1839 – Apr 1840] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-397 |
To Woodbine Parish [January 1839?]
Summary
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Woodbine Parish |
Date: | [Jan 1839?] |
Classmark: | Shuttleworth 1910, p. 412 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-398 |
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 John Phillips [18 March 1839]
Summary
Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [18 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-473 |
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 John Maurice Herbert [January 1839 – September 1842]
Summary
Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.
In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | [Jan 1839 – Sept 1842] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 December 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-476A |
To Charles Stokes [1839 – September 1842]
Summary
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Stokes |
Date: | [1839 – Sept 1842] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-478 |
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 Lyell [c. 9 January 1839]
Summary
Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.
Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [c. 9 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-480 |
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. J. Broderip 19 January [1839]
Summary
Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.
Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William John Broderip |
Date: | 19 Jan [1839] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-488 |
To Edwin C. Prince 21 January [1839]
Summary
Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Charles Prince |
Date: | 21 Jan [1839] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-491 |
To A. Y. Spearman 4 February 1839
Summary
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Feb 1839 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494A |
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 |
To William Lonsdale [27 April 1839 or earlier]
Summary
Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [27 Apr 1839 or earlier] |
Classmark: | University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496F |
To William Lonsdale [8 March 1839]
Summary
Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [8 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-497 |
To the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society [19 March 1839]
Summary
Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [19 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-499 |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (5) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (5) |
Babbage, Charles | (4) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (4) |
Darwin, Emma | (4) |
American Philosophical Society. | (1) |
Babbage, Charles | (4) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (4) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Colburn, Henry | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Green, Thomas | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Herbert, William | (2) |
Humboldt, Alexander von | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (4) |
Lonsdale, William | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Macleay, W. S. | (1) |
Mantell, G. A. | (1) |
Miller, W. H. | (1) |
Mitchell, T. L. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Parish, Woodbine | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Prince, E. C. | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (5) |
Shillinglaw, John | (1) |
Shoberl, William | (2) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Smyth, W. H. | (1) |
Société géologique de France | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (5) |
Stokes, Charles | (1) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Washington, John | (3) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Whewell, William | (3) |