To [Susan? Darwin] [1843 – 8 March 1846]
Summary
Reports events at Down.
The "atrocious doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [1843 – 8 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13798 |
From [G. R. Waterhouse] [1943?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of recent and fossil mammalian species of Brazil.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1843?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 173–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-655 |
From [G. R. Waterhouse] [1943?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosures to DCP-LETT-869. List of fossil Mammalia from the caverns of Minas Gerais purchased by the British Museum from Claussen.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1843?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-656 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [14 January 1843]
Summary
Asks for account.
Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [14 Jan 1843] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-658 |
To S. P. Woodward [14 January 1843]
Summary
Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London |
Date: | [14 Jan 1843] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-652 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 21 January [1843]
Summary
Discusses his account.
Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 21 Jan [1843] |
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-659 |
To J. S. Henslow [22 January 1843]
Summary
Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.
Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [22 Jan 1843] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-660 |
To ? 23 January [1843–6 or 1856–69]
Summary
Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13873 |
To J. E. Gray 25 January [1843]
Summary
Requests that Charles Lyell be permitted to borrow the coral reef specimens he presented to the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 25 Jan [1843] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF/ZOO/205/4/144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-660F |
To Charles Maclaren [c. February 1843]
Summary
[Written on CD’s annotated copy of a pamphlet reprint of CM’s review of Coral reefs.] CD asks CM to return the pamphlet to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Maclaren |
Date: | [c. Feb 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A94v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-661 |
To the Royal Geographical Society February 1843
Summary
George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | Feb 1843 |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-662A |
To Richard Owen [March 1843 – 15 May 1846]
Summary
Invites the Owens to stay at Down, joining Falconer and a few others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Mar 1843 – 15 May 1846] |
Classmark: | Michael H. McHugh (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-657 |
To ? 1 March [1843–82]
Summary
Regrets not having a duplicate of one of his books to give away. "You will before long no doubt be able to borrow a copy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Mar [1843-82] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13865 |
To the Geological Society of London 12 March [1843]
Summary
Asks how many copies of Proceedings are commonly sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 12 Mar [1843] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/7/354) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-663 |
To William Jackson Hooker 12 March [1843]
Summary
Asks WJH to thank his son [J. D. Hooker, away on Antarctic survey] for his note. Has also read a letter JDH wrote to Lyell. Hopes JDH will publish a journal. If he publishes an Antarctic flora, CD will place his collection of South American alpine plants at his disposal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1843] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence: S. American letters 1838–44, 69: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-664 |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 16 March [1843–82]
Summary
Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
Date: | 16 Mar [1843-82] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772F |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 21 March [1843–82]
Summary
Requests a mixture of verdigris, sal ammoniac, and lamp-black.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
Date: | 21 Mar [1843-82] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772 |
To W. D. Fox [25 March 1843]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s persisting grief.
Describes Down House and additions being built, which interfere with Geology [of "Beagle"].
Bodily health is improved, but cannot stand mental excitement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [25 Mar 1843] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-665 |
From William Mostyn Owen Sr 26 March 1843
Summary
Discusses the death of his son. Thanks CD for his letter of condolence and invites him to visit.
Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1843 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-666 |
To Robert FitzRoy 31 March [1843]
Summary
Congratulates FitzRoy on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand. Wants to see him and his wife before their departure. Proposes to call on them in London next Thursday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 31 Mar [1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-667 |
Darwin, C. R. | (70) |
Kemp, William | (6) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Hinds, R. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Kemp, William | (10) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (94) |
Kemp, William | (16) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (9) |
Henslow, J. S. | (8) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |