To John William Lubbock 2 April [1859]
Summary
Comments on water rising in their wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1846 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1846 …
To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846]
Summary
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [14 or 21] Aug 1846 |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-987 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846] …
- … S. Henslow, [5 October 1846] , and to Leonard …
- … Jenyns , 17 October [1846]). An allusion to CD’s children. …
- … Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Aug 1846 21 …
- … Aug 1846 Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield …
- … s volume [ Observations in natural history (1846)]. Observations on what the world would …
- … are based on the publication date of Jenyns 1846 (between 29 July and 14 August according …
- … to The Publisher’s Circular of 15 August 1846) and CD’s return from Shrewsbury on 9 …
- … August (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix II). Jenyns 1846 . William …
- … Yarrell . Jenyns 1846 was written using material that he had collected while working on …
- … University Press. 1985–. Jenyns, Leonard. 1846. Observations in natural history: with an …
- … 1842] . CD’s annotated copy of Jenyns 1846 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Gilbert White …
- … Association meeting in Southampton from 10 to 16 September 1846 (see letters to J. …
From George Grey 10 May 1846
Summary
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
Author: | George Grey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-979 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From George Grey 10 May 1846 …
- … DAR 144: 121c George Grey Auckland 10 May 1846 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … University Press. 1985–. Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. …
- … to Grey by someone unknown, see CD’s letter to J. L. Stokes, [ c. 26 November 1846]. See …
- … also letters to George Grey , 10 November 1846 , and to Robert …
- … FitzRoy , 23 November [1846]. CD refers to the incident again in Correspondence vol. 4, …
- … t . House. Auckland. New Zealand. May 10 th . 1846. My dear Sir. The enclosed note which I …
- … December 1845] . See also letter to J. L. Stokes, 3 November 1846 , and letter from J. …
- … L. Stokes, 6 November 1846 . John Lort Stokes and CD decided that …
- … mixed in with the proof-sheets of Stokes 1846 and sent to the printers by mistake, from …
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 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Daniel Sharpe [4 November 1846] …
- … December 2010) Charles Robert Darwin Down, Farnborough, Kent [4 Nov 1846] Daniel Sharpe …
- … Philosophical Society 6 (1836–8): 1–84. Sharpe, Daniel. 1846. On slaty cleavage. [ …
- … Read 2 December 1846. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 3 (1847): …
- … by William Hopkins ( D. Sharpe 1846 , p. 100); the paper mentioned by CD was probably …
- … and John Morris in a paper presented to the Geological Society on 25 March 1846 (Morris …
- … and Sharpe 1846 ). …
- … this letter and the letter to Daniel Sharpe, [1 November 1846] ( Correspondence vol. 3). …
- … The first Wednesday after 1 November 1846 was 4 November. CD had offered to lend Sharpe …
- … 3, letter to Daniel Sharpe, [1 November 1846] ); CD’s annotated copy of Buch 1813 is in …
- … Geological Society of London on 2 December 1846; in it he referred to three publications …
To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846] …
- … Hopkins 1838. See letter to Charles Lyell, [3 October 1846] , n. 7. …
- … and Medicine Archives Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Oct [1846] Andrew Crombie Ramsay …
- … of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335]. Sends copy of South America . …
- … Ramsay 1846 . See South America , pp. …
- … 6, and letter to Charles Lyell, [3 October 1846] , n. 3. CD believed that gravel terraces …
- … America , pp. 41–6). See letter to Charles Lyell, [3 October 1846] , especially n. 6. …
- … Bibliography Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1846. On the denudation of South Wales and the …
- … RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846. …
To Robert FitzRoy 23 November [1846]
Summary
J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.
A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 23 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1030 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Robert FitzRoy 23 November [1846] …
- … DAR 144: 121a Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Nov [1846] Robert FitzRoy …
- … 1845d ), and read a paper on their geographical distribution in December 1846 ( J. …
- … D. Hooker 1846 ). CD had just read a preliminary version of …
- … J. D. Hooker 1846 , see letter to …
- … Hooker, [23 November 1846] . …
- … Stokes 1846 . Letter to J. L. …
- … Stokes, [November–December 1845] . Letter from George Grey, 10 May 1846 . See …
- … letter to George Grey, 10 November 1846 , n. 3. Grey accepted CD’s apology and …
- … date of the letter to George Grey, 10 November 1846 . Plants collected on the first Beagle …
- … London: Reeve Brothers. Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. London: …
To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846]
Summary
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 28 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1014 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846] …
- … DAR 144: 120 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Oct [1846] Robert FitzRoy …
- … on New Zealand [ Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as …
- … paragraph, which Francis Darwin dated ‘1846’ and included in LL 1: 332, probably belongs …
- … FitzRoy 1846 . See …
- … letter to Robert FitzRoy, 1 October 1846 , n. 3. CD describes his trip to Waimate in …
- … 1832] and 30 March – 12 April 1833 . Stokes 1846 . Arthrobalanus , the cirripede from the …
- … Arthrobalanus fixes the date as October 1846; therefore it is probable that both sections …
- … edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. FitzRoy, Robert. 1846. …
- … Remarks on New Zealand, in February 1846. London. Journal of researches : Journal of …
- … Henry Colburn. 1839. Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. London: …
To J. L. Stokes [c. 26 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.
Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [c. 26 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1020 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. L. Stokes [ c. 26 November 1846] …
- … Ramsay (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down [c. 26 Nov 1846] John Lort Stokes …
- … Bibliography Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. London: T. & W. …
- … insult to George Grey. Compliments JLS on his book [ Discoveries in Australia (1846)]. …
- … CD’s letter to George Grey, 10 November 1846 . In his letter to Grey, CD did not mention …
- … letter to Robert FitzRoy, 23 November [1846] . Presumably CD received a letter from Stokes …
- … is the earliest possible Thursday following the 23 November. Stokes 1846 was reviewed …
- … in the July 1846 issues of the Foreign Quarterly Review (37: 257–80) and Fraser’s …
FitzRoy, Robert. 1846. Remarks on New Zealand, in February 1846. London.
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: 7 hits
- … To Robert Hutton [April 1846] …
- … Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54) Charles Robert Darwin Down [Apr 1846] Robert Hutton …
- … Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]. …
- … Dated from the reference to W. Herbert 1846 , which CD was anxious to read, see letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, [8? February 1846] . Robert Hutton was at that time a vice-president of the …
- … kind used by CD after the death of Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood on 31 March 1846. CD’s notes …
- … on W. Herbert 1846 are in DAR 74: 149–150. CD recorded and commented on the observations …
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To the Admiralty 9 [May 1846] …
- … Harvard University (Autograph File, D) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 [May 1846] Admiralty …
- … 9 May was the only Saturday the 9th in 1846. H.M.S. …
- … then returning to England, arrived 19 June 1846 (Log of Philomel , Public Record Office, …
- … On the geology of the Falkland Islands’ (read 25 March 1846), Collected papers 1: 203–12. …
- … of the Falkland Islands. By Charles Darwin. [Read 25 March 1846. ] Quarterly Journal …
- … of the Geological Society of London 2 (1846): 267–74. [ Collected papers 1: 203–12. ] …
Griffith, William. 1846. On the structure of the ascidia and stomata of Dischidia rafflesiana Wall. [Read 20 January 1846.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20 (1846–7): 387–90.
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846]
Summary
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Apr [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-973 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846] …
- … DAR 114: 59 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Apr [1846] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … In a letter to Hooker, dated 9 March 1846, John Stevens Henslow wrote: ‘I have been …
- … a fellow of the Geological Society on 6 May 1846. CD probably received the certificate by …
- … in letter to J. D. Hooker, [16 April 1846] . Maria Hooker , whose daughter Maria was …
- … married on 24 March, see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 [March] 1846 . W. …
- … Herbert 1846 . After asking Hooker to lend him the first number of the Journal of the …
- … Bibliography Forbes, Edward. 1846. On the connexion between the distribution of the …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [8? February 1846] ) CD apparently managed to borrow a copy …
- … see letter to Robert Hutton, [April 1846] . Moquin-Tandon 1841 . CD’s annotated copy …
- … is in the Darwin Library–CUL. E. Forbes 1846 . R. Owen 1846b . R. …
- … lecture V, pp. 84–129. Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood died on 31 March 1846 at the age of 82. …
To J. D. Hooker [29 March or 5 April 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-963 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [29 March or 5 April 1846] …
- … DAR 114: 58 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 Mar 1846 5 …
- … Apr 1846 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Sundays between the letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 March 1846] , and the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 10 April [1846] . That is, via Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Prussian …
To J. D. Hooker [24 March 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [24 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-962 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [24 March 1846] …
- … DAR 114: 57 Charles Robert Darwin Down [24 Mar 1846] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … finished reading this work on 20 March 1846 (DAR 119; Vorzimmer 1977 , p. 135). Moquin- …
- … Bibliography Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1846. Über die vulkanischen Phytolitharien …
- … the letter from C. G. Ehrenberg, 11 March 1846 , which arrived at Down on 23 March (see …
- … letter to C. G. Ehrenberg, 25[–31? ] March [1846] ). …
- … Probably for Ehrenberg 1846 . Saint-Hilaire 1841 , pp. 791–4. The pages are heavily …
To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846]
Summary
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1004 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.50) Charles Robert Darwin Down [3 Oct 1846] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in …
- … Survey. CD’s comments apply to Ramsay 1846 , a copy of which is in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … Down House MS) on 30 September. Ramsay 1846 dealt with evidence for marine denudation …
- … John Murray. 1859. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1846. On the denudation of South Wales and the …
- … RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846. …
- … an important aid to the process though not a necessary one ( Ramsay 1846 , pp. 326– …
- … 7). Ramsay (1846, pp. 314–17) believed that the convoluted strata appearing over much of …
- … occurring near the end of the Carboniferous. Ramsay (1846, p. 314) had noted pre- …
- … disturbances in North Wales. Ramsay (1846, p. 317) argued that in view of the enormous …
- … had not occurred until the Tertiary ( Ramsay 1846 , pp. 324–5). The presumed thickness of …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Reeve Brothers [August 1846] …
- … Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)]. …
- … of English and American Literature. Charles Robert Darwin Down [Aug 1846] Reeve Brothers. …
- … RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. By Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1846. …
- … Book (Down House MS) dated 4 September 1846: ‘Cheque L. Reeve. Lithograph for G. of S. …
- … letter to Smith, Elder & Co. , [19 October 1846] , for CD’s response to the binding of the …
To C. G. Ehrenberg 25[–31?] March [1846]
Summary
Sends copy [of "Fine dust in the Atlantic Ocean", Collected papers 1: 199–202]. Attempting to obtain further samples for CGE.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 25[–31?] Mar [1846] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43 Bl. 15–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-965 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To C. G. Ehrenberg 25[–31? ] March [1846] …
- … Bl. 15–17) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25[–31? ] Mar [1846] Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg …
- … 3, letter from J. D. Hooker, [25 March 1846] , and Correspondence vol. 30, Supplement, …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 March 1846 ). The specimens were sent to Ehrenberg by 10 …
- … April, see ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 April [1846] . …
- … of the Geological Society (Proceedings) 2 (1846): 26–30. [ Shorter publications , pp. 192– …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 March 1846 ( Correspondence vol. 30, Supplement). Letter …
- … from C. G. Ehrenberg, 11 March 1846 . ‘Account of the dust which falls on vessels in the …
To John Gould [c. October 1846]
Summary
Recommends Ernst Dieffenbach for expedition to Guatemala.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [c. Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13812 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To John Gould [ c . October 1846] …
- … University Library Add 4251: 329 Charles Robert Darwin Down [c. Oct 1846] John Gould …
- … made by CD, in a letter dated 29 October 1846 from Giessen ( British Museum (Natural …
- … Library). Gould’s reply, dated 25 November 1846, makes it clear that his plans were ‘still …
- … a letter to John Gould dated 29 October 1846 ( British Museum (Natural History), Zoology …
- … 1845] , and to J. D. Hooker, [19 May 1846], in which CD refers to Dieffenbach’s wish to …
- … plans for an expedition to South America in Athenæum , 8 August 1846, p. 819, and …
- … were published in Athenæum , 21 November 1846, p. 1191. The expedition was never carried …
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846] …
- … DAR 114: 63 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 July 1846 15 …
- … July 1846 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Emma, William, and Anne Darwin were in Tenby from 19 June to 7 July 1846, see letter to …
- … Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] , n. 2. …
- … was to meet in Southampton, 10–16 September 1846. Narrative , appendix to volume two. A …
- … was accidently shot dead on 24 January 1846 in Peru, shortly after visiting the Galápagos …
- … his Account Book (Down House MS) on 1 July 1846. C. Lyell 1846b , quoting Hooker on p. …
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Religion in Commentary
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … Innes was named perpetual curate of Down in 1846 (Crockford’s). Innes was a High-Churchman, that is, …