From J. S. Henslow [5 November 1837 – March 1838]
Summary
Fragment glued to CD’s notes on rock specimens. The recto refers to one of CD’s specimens, the verso mentions his Keeling Island plants.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 Nov 1837 – Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 88a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-338 |
To John Maurice Herbert [1 January 1837]
Summary
Enjoyed the merry evening with JMH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | [1 Jan 1837] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-339 |
From Fanny Myddelton Biddulph 14 January 1837
Summary
Apologises for delay in thanking him for the flowers. Has been too unwell to write.
Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-340 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
To a member of Downing College, Cambridge [19 January 1837]
Summary
Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [19 Jan 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 142v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-342 |
From Charles Lyell 13 February 1837
Summary
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-343 |
From Catherine and Caroline Sarah Darwin [16 February 1837]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-344 |
From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
To William Whewell [10 March 1837]
Summary
CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | [10 Mar 1837] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-347 |
To W. D. Fox [12 March 1837]
Summary
Finished going over his geological specimens at Cambridge, and is now in London.
Describes his plans for writing the journal, and later the geology and zoology of the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [12 Mar 1837] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-348 |
To Charles Babbage [14 March 1837 – 31 December 1838]
Summary
Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | [14 Mar 1837 – 31 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-349 |
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
To the Geological Society of London 27 March 1837
Summary
Recommends David Williams’ paper on raised beaches of Devon [David Williams, "Letter … on the raised beaches of Barnstaple", Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1840): 287–8] be shortened and published immediately after Sedgwick’s and Murchison’s paper ["Description of a raised beach in Barnstaple", ibid., pp. 279–86] as chief point of paper is to support their conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 27 Mar 1837 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-352 |
To J. S. Henslow 28 March [1837]
Summary
Publication plans for the account of the Beagle expedition – CD to have the third volume for his journal.
News of naturalists and their interest in his specimens. Queries about plant specimens, including one on whether seeds from Keeling Island would endure salt water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 28 Mar [1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 34 DAR/1/1/34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-353 |
To Leonard Jenyns 10 April [1837]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 10 Apr [1837] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-354 |
To J. S. Henslow 18 [May 1837]
Summary
Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.
Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.
CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 [May 1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-355 |
To J. S. Henslow [28 May 1837]
Summary
CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].
Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.
Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [28 May 1837] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356 |
To John Lort Stokes [after 31 May 1837]
Summary
Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [after 31 May 1837] |
Classmark: | Stokes 1846, 1: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-356F |
To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Henslow, J. S. | (12) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (4) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (68) |
Henslow, J. S. | (14) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |