To William Whewell [10 March 1837]
Summary
CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | [10 Mar 1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-347 |
To W. D. Fox [12 March 1837]
Summary
Finished going over his geological specimens at Cambridge, and is now in London.
Describes his plans for writing the journal, and later the geology and zoology of the Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [12 Mar 1837] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-348 |
To Charles Babbage [14 March 1837 – 31 December 1838]
Summary
Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [14 Mar 1837 – 31 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-349 |
To the Geological Society of London 27 March 1837
Summary
Recommends David Williams’ paper on raised beaches of Devon [David Williams, "Letter … on the raised beaches of Barnstaple", Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1840): 287–8] be shortened and published immediately after Sedgwick’s and Murchison’s paper ["Description of a raised beach in Barnstaple", ibid., pp. 279–86] as chief point of paper is to support their conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1837 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/216) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-352 |
To J. S. Henslow 28 March [1837]
Summary
Publication plans for the account of the Beagle expedition – CD to have the third volume for his journal.
News of naturalists and their interest in his specimens. Queries about plant specimens, including one on whether seeds from Keeling Island would endure salt water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 34 DAR/1/1/34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-353 |
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
| Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, F. J. | (1) |
| Horner, J. B. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bunbury, F. J. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Geological Society of London | (1) |
