To Charles Wigley 21 March 1853
Summary
Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wigley |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1853 |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1507F |
From R. Carden 18 March 1853
Summary
Asks when the Transfer will be prepared, so he can have the money ready.
| Author: | Robert Carden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1853 |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506G |
From E. A. Darwin 26 April 1853
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Summary
Writes concerning marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To Richard Owen 30 July [1853]
Summary
Bartholomew James Sulivan’s address is Guildford. Please to have CD’s copy [of Owen 1853] left at the Athenaeum Club or the Geological Society of London.
He and his family are in Eastbourne but the weather has been poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 30 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | Onondaga County Public Library (Autograph Manuscripts collection Box 1 Folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1526F |
To John Higgins 11 April [1853]
Summary
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1513 |
To Thomas Salt 15 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506F |
To W. E. Darwin 1 March [1853]
Summary
Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.
Writes of the benefits of reading.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1639 |
To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To John Murray 24 July [1853]
Summary
Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 24 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1524 |
To [William Sharpey] [1853–72?]
Summary
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | [1853–72?] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13892 |
To J. S. Henslow 31 March [1853]
Summary
Would like to meet JSH in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1510 |
To Thomas Salt 31 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499F |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
To John Higgins 14 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 14 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1519 |
To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [c. 27 April 1853]
Summary
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [c. 27 Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 19, 7 May 1853, p. 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516A |
To John Higgins 2–3 December [1853]
Summary
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 2–3 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1541 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To C. S. Bate 10 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1471 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
| Carden, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hancock, Albany | (6) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Hancock, Albany | (7) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Bate, C. S. | (4) |
