To Robert Fitzroy [20 February 1840]
Summary
Cancelled. Same as To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840]. Dated 21 [May 1840], in first edition of the printed Calendar, but cancelled before the second edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [20 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-569 |
To ? [2 June? 1840]
Summary
Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [2 June? 1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570F |
From Susan and Catherine Darwin [22 July 1840]
Summary
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 July 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-575 |
To J. S. Henslow 3 July [1840]
Summary
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 3 July [1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-573 |
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | 26 May [1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
From J. S. Henslow 2 November 1840
Summary
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-579 |
To [W. A. Leighton?] [1840–77?]
Summary
Valediction only of a letter stuck into a writing case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | [1840–77?] |
Classmark: | Estate of the late Mr D. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770H |
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To John Phillips [November 1840]
Summary
Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | [Nov 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-578 |
To W. A. Leighton 1 December 1840
Summary
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 1 Dec 1840 |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-584 |
From W. C. Redfield 6 May 1840
Summary
Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.
Author: | William C. Redfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1840 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565H |
To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Comments on the quality of the meat of the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548A |
To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Describes the range of conditions under which the guanaco thrives and the ease with which it can be tamed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548B |
To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
To Thomas Walker 5 May [1840]
Summary
Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Walker |
Date: | 5 May [1840] |
Classmark: | Jim Somerville (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565G |
To Leonard Jenyns 5 April [1840]
Summary
Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.
Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 5 Apr [1840] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-563 |
To John Gould [after 1 December 1840]
Summary
Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [after 1 Dec 1840] |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-578F |
To J. S. Henslow [24 January 1840]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [24 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-552 |
To William Kemp 1[1] May [1840]
Summary
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | 1[1] May [1840] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565F |
From J. S. Henslow 21 November 1840
Summary
Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-582 |
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Redfield, W. C. | (3) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |