To Susan Darwin 28 January 1836
Summary
CD’s impressions of Sydney and of FitzRoy’s character and temperament.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1836 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-294 |
From S. E. (Elizabeth) Wedgwood to Hensleigh Wedgwood [16] November [1836]
Summary
Describes CD’s visit to Maer on his return from Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Date: | [16] Nov [1836] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-322 |
From B. J. Sulivan 7 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9273 |
To Susan Darwin [6 September 1831]
Summary
Orders clothing, books, and other supplies for the voyage, to be sent to him in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-119 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 8 September [1852]
Summary
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1852] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1487 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 April [1860]
Summary
JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2776 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1846
Summary
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 60–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-947 |
From R. H. Corfield 26–7 June 1835
Summary
Greatly enjoyed CD’s company; has worried about his health. Adds some European and English news.
| Author: | Richard Henry Corfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 & 27 June 1835 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-278 |
To Karl von Scherzer 13 February 1877
Summary
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10843 |
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1871]
Summary
Glad to hear of new German edition of Origin. He is revising the English edition, adding a new chapter of "Answers".
No new edition of Descent has appeared.
Would be glad to see a new translation of the Journal of researches, which he revised in 1845.
Comments on white colour of sea-birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter LC 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 74–77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7994 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1844
Summary
Would like to visit on the weekend of 7–8 December.
Differences in floras of St Helena and Ascension.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-795 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 December 1835
Summary
At sea 25 days from Galapagos to Tahiti, where they stayed ten days. It was delightful. Then three weeks to New Zealand, where they will be for ten days.
Convinced of high merit of missionaries.
Dislikes Augustus Earle’s book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah Darwin; Caroline Sarah Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1835 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-289 |
To Caroline Darwin 25–6 April [1832]
Summary
His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah Darwin; Caroline Sarah Wedgwood |
| Date: | 25–6 Apr [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-166 |
To Joseph Dalton Hooker [11 January 1844]
Summary
Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [11 Jan 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-729 |
From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
| Author: | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10767 |
To William Shoberl [22 or 23 September 1837]
Summary
Thanks WS for a document [see 379]. Promises to send MS and woodcuts before night. Discusses details of printing and correction. Thanks WS and Henry Colburn for assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Shoberl |
| Date: | [22–3 Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-380 |
From James Busby to Alexander Berry 29 December 1835
Summary
Introduces CD to Alexander Berry of Sydney.
| Author: | James Busby |
| Addressee: | Alexander Berry |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1835 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library (MLMSS 315/51 Item 6, pp. 1–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-289F |
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