DCP-LETT-1049
Summary
Cancelled: same as 1083. Discusses manuscript by DS on slaty cleavage. Thinks of cleavage analogous to his own explanation of laminated lava.
| Author: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 473 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1049 |
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
DCP-LETT-1046
Summary
Cancelled: same as 1109. Will send carrier to collect the books [volumes of Trans Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
| Author: | John Forbes Royle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 399 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1046 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
To John Higgins 11 December [1847]
Summary
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1138 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Higgins, John …
- … r Robarts & enclosing your account. — I am very glad to hear that all is going on prosperously; but I am sorry for the poor old man’s death. I thank you sincerely for your kind expressions about my Father— pray believe me— my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin …
To Robert Chambers [28 February 1847]
Summary
Asks to call on RC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1065 |
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 25 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]
Summary
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1126 |
To Robert Hutton [1847 – 12 November 1848]
Summary
Tells RH that he has secured an introduction to Lady Elizabeth Finch through a friend of his father’s. Thanks RH for his efforts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
| Date: | [1847 – 12 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1040 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hutton, Robert …
- … r . Hutton The next morning after seeing you at the Geolog. Soc. I heard from my Father, that he had written to an old friend, who, as he thought probable, was intimate with Lady E. Finch, & thus I have got a good introduction. I write this to save you or your friend any further trouble, & I thank you heartily for your very kind readiness to help me. Believe me | Very truly yours | C. Darwin …
To Bernhard Studer 20 January [1847]
Summary
Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].
Sends copy of South America.
Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1054 |
To Robert Patterson 17 April [1847]
Summary
Admires RP’s volume [Introduction to zoology, pt 1 (1846)]; he has condensed a great deal of accurate information. CD hopes some good naturalists will spring up as a result.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1847] |
| Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 712 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1081 |
To M. A. T. Whitby 14 October [1847]
Summary
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1128 |
To William Baxter 2 October [1847?]
Summary
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13775 |
To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
| Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
To John Higgins 10 September [1847]
Summary
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1117 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1847]
Summary
Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1064 |
To Henry Denny 21 July [1847]
Summary
Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | 21 July [1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 383 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1103 |
To Richard Owen [1847?]
Summary
Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1044 |
To Daniel Sharpe [19 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | [19 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1052 |
To Thomas Salt [March 1847]
Summary
Maer purchase-money; London and Birmingham Railway Company shares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | [Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1066F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
| Sharpe, Daniel | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (35) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (107) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (39) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (5) |
