To Robert Fitzroy [1846]
Summary
Cancelled: part of 1014. Thanks RF for his kindness on Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [1846] |
| Classmark: | LL 1: 332 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-936 |
To the Admiralty 9 [May 1846]
Summary
Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Admiralty |
| Date: | 9 [May 1846] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-694 |
To Richard Owen [21 April 1846]
Summary
Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-959 |
To the London Library 1 February [1846?]
Summary
Orders John Pye Smith’s book [Relations between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of geological science (1839)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | London Library |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1846?] |
| Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (Corbett Autograph Collection MS21/3/1/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13821 |
To Robert Hutton [April 1846]
Summary
Returns copy [of J. Hortic. Soc. Lond.]. Mentions article by William Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
| Date: | [Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-952 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hutton, Robert …
- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
- … r . Herbert’s journal with interest. I will return the Journal today to the Athenæum Club & I hope it will not inconvenience you my sending it there, instead of direct to your house. — My wife joins me in kind remembrances to M rs . Hutton & your family. Believe me, Yours sincerely, with thanks | C. Darwin …
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April [1846]
Summary
On geological works of Tschudi and Buch.
"My health keeps indifferent & I do not suppose I shall ever be a strong man again: everything fatigues me, & I can work but little at my writing: this summer, however, I shall get out my geology of S. America".
"I found Bronn’s Geschichte, which you recommended me, very useful, for references to facts on variation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-972 |
To Richard Owen 25 November [1846]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1033 |
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
To John Higgins 12 December [1846]
Summary
Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1846] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1037 |
To David Thomas Ansted 25 November [1846]
Summary
Encloses a set of proof sheets of the fossil shells in South America.
Also encloses some specimen sheets by G. B. Sowerby to disseminate as an advertisement.
Asks that E. A. Darwin’s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Hans A. O. Baumann (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032F |
To Royal Geographical Society [28 January or 4 February 1846]
Summary
Enclosed MS by Lieut. W. Christopher misrepresents CD’s views. Contains errors in zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julian Jackson |
| Date: | [28 Jan or 4 Feb] 1846 |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-646 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 October 1846]
Summary
Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1006 |
To J. D. Hooker [15 November 1846]
Summary
Will come to Kew on Friday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1025 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1846]
Summary
CD’s visit to Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1027 |
To Daniel Sharpe [4 November 1846]
Summary
Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017F |
To Reeve Brothers [August 1846]
Summary
Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reeve Brothers. |
| Date: | [Aug 1846] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-937 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1846]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of draft. When does JH want the money for the new farmhouse? Bankers are Robarts, Curtis & Co. JH to pay them the rent directly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1846] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-980 |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1846]
Summary
Proposes to visit Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1024 |
To George Grey 10 November 1846
Summary
CD apologises for his note to J. L. Stokes [see 940], which somehow found its way into GG’s hands.
Praises GG’s work on Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Grey |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1846 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1021 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Horner, Leonard | (2) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (2) |
| Sharpe, Daniel | (2) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (2) |
| Stokes, J. L. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Admiralty | (1) |
| Annals and Magazine of Natural History | (1) |
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gould, John | (1) |
| Grey, George | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Hutton, Robert | (1) |
| Jackson, Julian | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
| Langton, Catherine | (1) |
| Lindley, John | (1) |
| London Library | (1) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Mallet, Robert | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Reeve Brothers. | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
| Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
| Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Francis | (1) |
| Williamson, W. C. | (1) |
