To C. T. Whitley [8 May 1838]
Summary
Treasures recollections of old friends but seldom sees any. Has turned "a complete scribbler".
His scientific activities.
No wife in sight so far.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Date: | [8 May 1838] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411A |
To William Lonsdale [15 May 1838]
Summary
Returns his paper for publication ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | [15 May 1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-412 |
To Susan Darwin [15 May 1838]
Summary
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [15 May 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-413 |
To John Forbes Royle [24 May 1838]
Summary
Would like to attend a lecture by JFR on "geography of plants with relation to the Himalayas".
"A grand battle" at the Geological Society between Sedgwick and G. B. Greenough.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
| Date: | [24 May 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 397 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415 |
To Charles Wood 24 May 1838
Summary
Asks for permission to have a copy of the published Admiralty chart of the Island of Ascension. The engraved chart will add value to the geological observations to be published in the natural history of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wood, Lord Halifax, 1st Viscount Halifax |
| Date: | 24 May 1838 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM 1/4548 PRO D 170) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415A |
To Caroline Wedgwood [May 1838]
Summary
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [May 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-411 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
