To ? [28 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 40/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1230 |
To John Higgins 5 June [1849]
Summary
Comments on his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 5 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1243 |
To George Ransome 27 [August 1849]
Summary
Regrets that state of his health prevents acceptance of invitation [to be present at inauguration of J. S. Henslow as President of Ipswich Museum in Dec 1850].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 27 [Aug 1849] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1335 |
To J. S. Henslow [before 12 October 1849]
Summary
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [before 12 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1284 |
To Thomas Salt 27 July [1849]
Summary
Returns the enclosed from his brother [Erasmus Alvey Darwin]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 27 July [1849] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1103F |
To Lovell Augustus Reeve [before 14 March 1849]
Summary
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lovell Augustus Reeve |
| Date: | [before 14 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Melvill 1900: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223F |
To George Ransome 25 October [1849]
Summary
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1261 |
To Hugh Cuming [4 November 1849]
Summary
Arranges to call on Wednesday but declines a breakfast invitation, as his stomach is so particular that he is afraid to go about before eating.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Cuming |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1265 |
To Thomas Salt 19 November [1849]
Summary
He is willing to wait until the end of February 1850 for Mr Salt to find him an opportunity to invest up to £30,000.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1849] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1271F |
To John Higgins 10 December [1849]
Summary
Discusses his accounts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1279 |
To Richard Owen [1849?]
Summary
CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1849?] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1089 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 24 February [1849]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1849] |
| Classmark: | Formerly Leeds City Libraries; for sale at Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229 |
To Abraham Clapham 10 December [1849]
Summary
Comments on AC’s experiments on Phlox and Mimulus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1278 |
To Hugh Cuming [October? 1849]
Summary
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Cuming |
| Date: | [Oct? 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1258 |
To [Auguste Daubrée] [1849?]
Summary
Had hoped to sent specimens by carrier that day; intends to sent them next Thursday.
Thanks for German scientific newspaper: two articles interested him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gabriel-Auguste (Auguste) Daubrée |
| Date: | [1849?] |
| Classmark: | Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2423 A ff. 69–70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260G |
To J. S. Henslow 20 November [1849]
Summary
Has had his portrait taken;
is anxious about scarlet fever among his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1849] |
| Classmark: | Princeton University Library (General MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1272 |
To John Murray 12 June [1849]
Summary
Appreciates what Murray and the printer are doing to rectify the error [transposition of pages of text in "Geology"]. But if the responsible person will be fined heavily, CD would want to "make some present".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.16–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1245 |
To Thomas Salt 12 November [1849]
Summary
Asks if Mr Salt could arrange to invest up to £30,000 on his behalf.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1849] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1269F |
To M. A. T. Whitby 12 August [1849]
Summary
Thanks MATW for the results of her experiments on the inheritance of caterpillar peculiarities and would be grateful for any further observations on differences in structure or habits between silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1849] |
| Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1194 |
To Sven Lovén 12 November 1849
Summary
To make his monograph on cirripedes complete, would appreciate a specimen of Alepas squalicola, which CD is sure is a new genus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1849 |
| Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1269 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (71) |
| Dixon, E. S. | (1) |
| Forchhammer, J. G. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hancock, Albany | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (80) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
