From [Mr Edwards?] [before end of 1839?]
Summary
Reports on a setter puppy born of apparently pure pointer parents. Any cross must have been far back.
Author: | [–] Edwards |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before end of 1839?] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13803 |
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 [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 |
From Emma Darwin [c. February 1839]
Summary
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-471 |
From Susan Darwin [c. 24 October 1839]
Summary
Gives some information on Darwin family history.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 24 Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-472 |
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 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [1839 – 10 February 1840]
Summary
Sends John Blackwall’s book [Researches in zoology (1834)]. Discusses his reasons for doubting that there are any marsupials in Java or Sumatra.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1839 – 10 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-475 |
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 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 |
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 Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
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 Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
letter | (96) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Darwin, Emma | (7) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
Malcolmson, J. G. | (5) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Royal Geographical Society | (5) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (5) |
Babbage, Charles | (4) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (95) |
Darwin, Emma | (11) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (11) |
Malcolmson, J. G. | (5) |
Royal Geographical Society | (5) |