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 |
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 [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 J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society [1839 – May 1842]
Summary
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [1839 – May 1842] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-477 |
letter | (7) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Parish, Woodbine | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Parish, Woodbine | (1) |