From W. B. Carpenter 2 January [1845]
Summary
Says tuff collected by CD in Pampas and Chile contains organic remains. Wants to examine specimens further and hopes for Government support in doing so.
Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-813 |
From W. B. Carpenter 21 December 1844
Summary
Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.
Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 33–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-802 |
From W. B. Carpenter 5 May 1845
Summary
Discusses the microscopic structure of rock samples from Chile and the Pampas. Describes organic remains found in the samples.
Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 36–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-865 |
To W. B. Carpenter 13 February 1882
Summary
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13681 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-753 |
To W. B. Carpenter [October–December 1846]
Summary
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Oct–Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1001 |
To W. B. Carpenter 19 November [1859]
Summary
Asks to hear WBC’s conclusion about the Origin when he has read it all. Knows only one believer so far – J. D. Hooker. Sometimes feels frightened that he may be a monomaniac.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 19 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 2 (EH 88205919) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2536 |
To W. B. Carpenter 17 June [1860]
Summary
Must defer WBC’s visit, owing to daughter’s illness.
Comments on response to the Origin. Has been "well pitched into", but cares little, because of support of men like WBC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 17 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 6 (EH 88205923) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2834 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [13–16 February 1867]
Summary
Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [13–16 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5402 |
To W. B. Carpenter 21 April [1873]
Summary
Writes of his extreme interest in WBC’s article ["On the hereditary transmission of acquired psychical habits", Contemp. Rev. 21 (1873): 779–95].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 21 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 7 (EH 88205924) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8869 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [January? 1847]
Summary
Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Jan? 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050 |
To W. B. Carpenter 6 April [1860]
Summary
Comments enthusiastically on WBC’s review ["The theory of development in nature", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 5 (EH 88205922) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2747 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 25 December [1844]
Summary
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803A |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 26 January [1858]
Summary
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 26 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2043 |
To W. B. Carpenter 18 November [1859]
Summary
Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.
"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 18 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2535 |
To W. B. Carpenter 3 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted by WBC’s letter about Origin. There is now "a great physiologist on our side". "You have done me an essential kindness in checking the odium theologicum in the E[dinburgh] R[eview] … immaterial whether we go quite the same lengths … the principle is everything."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 3 (EH 88205920) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2568 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 December [1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Dec [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797F |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 January [1860]
Summary
WBC’s review [of Origin, Natl Rev. 10 (1860): 188–214] will do great good. It "turns the flanks of theological opposers" capitally.
Asks for information about cuckoo eggs and West Indian sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 6 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 4 (EH 88205921) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2641 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (16) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (19) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |