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 |
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 |
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 |
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]
Summary
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
| 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 |
To Emma Darwin [5 April 1840]
Summary
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-564 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 January 1840
Summary
Presents the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of the fourth part (now published) of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1840 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550A |
To John Edward Gray 1 January [1840]
Summary
Testimonial in behalf of JEG’s application for the position of keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum from which John George Children was about to resign.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1840] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library, J. E. Gray Miscellaneous papers vol. 1: f.118) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548C |
To A. Y. Spearman 20 May 1840
Summary
The fourth number of part one of the Zoology has now been published. The Smith, Elder & Co. account is submitted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 May 1840 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-568A |
| Geological Society of London | (4) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Hall, Basil | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
| Geological Society of London | (4) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
