To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
From John Higgins 31 July 1852
Summary
Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.
Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484H |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Higgins, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … I remain Dear Sir | Your faithful servant | ( signed) John Higgins C. R. Darwin Esq re …
- … 10 per cent only— M r . Erasmus Darwin’s Rents are 10 p r C t . only, because the old …
- … Darwin’s were recent purchases— Last year, I valued for Rental, upwards of 20’000 acres for The Duke of Newcastle, and the result was a uniform reduction of 15 P r . C …
DCP-LETT-1478
Summary
Cancelled: draft of 1496.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Apr 1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478 |
To ? 31 December [1852–3]
Summary
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1852-3] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13872 |
To W. E. Darwin 27 August [1852]
Summary
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1486 |
To J. S. Henslow [1852–60]
Summary
Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [1852–60] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1466F |
To Edward Forbes 23 January [1852?]
Summary
Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1852?] |
| Classmark: | Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin, QH365 .O2 1859) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 January [1852]
Summary
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472A |
To George Ransome 5 August [1852]
Summary
Forwards an order for £1 1s in response to a circular from Ipswich Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 5 Aug [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (William Finkelstein autograph collection 1747–1979 (MS 19th cent+) vol. 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1485F |
To John Higgins 18 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1494 |
To John Higgins 29 July [1852]
Summary
Thanks JH for his exposition of the effects of falling grain and lifestock prices on farm income.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 29 July [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484G |
To John Higgins 2 August [1852]
Summary
Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1485 |
To Philip Henry Stanhope 30 July [1852]
Summary
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope |
| Date: | 30 July [1852] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13844 |
To W. E. Darwin 24 [February 1852]
Summary
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1474 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 10 January 1852]
Summary
Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 10 Jan 1852] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1470 |
To George Johnston 23 November 1852
Summary
Recommends GJ for Government pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Johnston |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1852 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1491 |
From John Higgins 27 July 1852
Summary
Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1852 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484F |
To A. A. Gould 29 February [1852]
Summary
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1475 |
To John Higgins 19 June [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 19 June [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1483 |
To George Crawford Hyndman 16 April [1852]
Summary
Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Crawford Hyndman |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1852] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1479 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (4) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Higgins, John | (6) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
