Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
From B. J. Sulivan [November 1838 – April 1839]
Summary
Observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1838 – Apr 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 20–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13847 |
From John George Children 21 February 1838
Summary
In view of the charges directed by Edward Blyth against George R. Gray for gross incivility and discourtesy in discharging his duties as assistant in the zoological department at the British Museum, CD is asked by the Trustees to comment upon his own experience with Gray and to offer his judgment of these charges.
Author: | John George Children |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/1/74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402B |
From A. Y. Spearman 23 February 1838
Summary
Payment of the Smith, Elder & Co. account has been ordered, amounting to the sum of £68.10.10 for the first part of the Zoology.
Author: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 443) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402C |
From Robert FitzRoy 26 February 1838
Summary
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-403 |
From Leonard Horner 7 April [1838]
Summary
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Author: | Leonard Horner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr [1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-408 |
From John Gould [13 April] 1838
Summary
Thanks CD for his present of a dram bottle [actually a silver-cased compass]. JG will be reminded daily of their friendship when he is in the wilds [of Australia].
Author: | John Gould |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Apr] 1838 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Tring Museum Correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409A |
From Francis Beaufort 26 May [1838]
Summary
Has been commanded to supply CD with a copy of the plan of Ascension Island to be engraved for the natural history of the Beagle’s voyage. Suggests that a lithographer be sent to the [Hydrographic] office to take a transfer proof.
Author: | Francis Beaufort |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May [1838] |
Classmark: | United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no. 8, p. 190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415B |
From W. D. Fox [c. November 1838]
Summary
Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Nov 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418 |
From Francis Walker 6 July [1838]
Summary
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July [1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421 |
From J. P. S. de Grateloup 18 July 1838
Summary
Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].
Author: | Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1838 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421A |
From Charles Lyell 6 and 8 September 1838
Summary
Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.
CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.
Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.
Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.
Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.
Comments on methods of work.
Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.
Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".
With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 8 Sept 1838 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-425 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 20 October 1838
Summary
Reports arrival at Falklands; weather conditions, and unsuccessful search he made for a geological formation CD had seen. Describes cliffs, streams, rocks, and lines of elevation; includes two drawings.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-429 |
From J. S. Henslow [after 3 November 1838]
Summary
Whilst a genus of plants is comon to two of three islands [in the Galápagos] the species are often different in different islands. [Text only known from Journal of researches; published in Correspondence vol. 13 supplement, p. 351, letter to John Stevens Henslow, 3 November 1838, n. 5.]
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 Nov 1838] |
Classmark: | Journal of researches, p. 629 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-431F |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [14 November 1838]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Nov 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-435 |
From William Owen Sr 21 November 1838
Summary
Expresses his pride and pleasure in CD’s friendship and wishes him well on hearing of his forthcoming marriage.
Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-439 |
From Thomas Bell [5 December 1838]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s forthcoming marriage.
Has received some of the reptiles back from G. Bibron, who has named them. TB will get "some subjects in readiness for figuring" by CD’s date.
Author: | Thomas Bell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-452 |
From Albert Way 9 December 1838
Summary
Congratulations on CD’s engagement.
In answer to CD’s request, tells him how to locate an artist who made excellent sketches of Scotland, and probably of Glen Roy. AW himself made a sketch of the Glen which he offers to CD [Collected papers 1: 88].
Author: | Albert Way |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-455 |
From J. S. Henslow 16 December 1838
Summary
On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-456 |
letter | (35) |
Beaufort, Francis | (1) |
Bell, Thomas | (1) |
Children, J. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (8) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Grateloup, J. P. S. de | (1) |
Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
Henslow, Harriet | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jenyns, Harriet | (1) |
Langton, Charlotte | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, William | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Walker, Francis | (1) |
Way, Albert | (1) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
Wedgwood, Charlotte | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
Williams, S. H. | (1) |
Yarrell, William | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Emma | (8) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (8) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Langton, Charlotte | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Charlotte | (2) |
Yarrell, William | (2) |
Beaufort, Francis | (1) |
Bell, Thomas | (1) |
Children, J. G. | (1) |
Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Grateloup, J. P. S. de | (1) |
Haliburton, S. H. | (1) |
Henslow, Harriet | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jenyns, Harriet | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, William | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Walker, Francis | (1) |
Way, Albert | (1) |
Wedgwood, Caroline | (1) |
Williams, S. H. | (1) |