To John Phillips 18 January [1856]
Summary
Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1822 |
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To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Dear Friend 2 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 2 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … I hope you received yesterdays letter— I remain, you know what A PUg , January 2 d 1822 …
- … 1, letters from E. A. Darwin, 25 [October 1822] and [10 January 1825] , and letter from …
- … affectionate pug’; see this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 12 January 1822 . …
- … identified. See this volume, Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. …
- … Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 and n. 2. CD had developed an early …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Dear Friend 4 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 4 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … burst ] w[ith] a nose as big as your fist January the 2, 1822 The second letter today …
- … the letter to Dear Friend, 4 January 1822 (this volume, Supplement), it has been given a …
- … letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to his sister Caroline Sarah …
- … Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1). Richard or Richards has not …
To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Dear Friend 1 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 1 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … samples (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter from E. A. Darwin, 14 November 1822 ). …
- … and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As …
- … January 1 st . 1822 My Dear friend I think it is a most abominable thing, the minute …
- … and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As …
- … as Catherine; see this volume, Supplement, letters to Dear Friend, 2 January 1822 , n. …
- … 3, 12 January 1822 , n. 6; see also Browne 1995 , pp. 11–12, 14). Catherine is known to …
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Dear Friend 4 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271/1/1 Charles Robert Darwin 4 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … as your fist PS I hope you were not much alarmed at M iss Clare accident January 4, 1822 …
- … letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to his sister Marianne Darwin . …
- … as receiving money between 1817 and 1822 (DAR 227.5: 82, f. 51 and contents page). The …
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Dear Friend 12 January 1822 …
- … DAR 271.1.1: 6v Charles Robert Darwin 12 Jan 1822 Friend …
- … Supplement, letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to the Darwin family …
- … first letter to Dear Friend, 4 January 1822 and n. 4). CD probably refers to his sister, …
- … that stuff in the washroom January 12 th . 1822— remember next summer to make two cave one …
- … perpetual curate of Buildwas, Shropshire, in 1822 ( Alum. Cantab. ). See Two Shropshire …
- … Darwin , who gave medical advice to the countess on 5 January 1822, and visited the earl …
- … at Walcot on 25 January 1822 (DAR 227.5: 67 f. 260). CD later remembered often …
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
Goss, John. 1822. On the variation in the colour of peas, occasioned by cross impregnation. [Read 15 October 1822.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 234–7.
Mowbray, William. 1822. [Letter to the secretary of the Horticultural Society of London, 30 November 1822.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 274–5.
From E. A. Darwin 8 December 1822
Summary
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4 |
Burckhardt, John Lewis. 1822. Travels in Nubia. 2d ed. London.
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- … Burckhardt, John Lewis. 1822. Travels in Nubia. 2d ed. London. 5,6 …
Good, John Mason. 1822. The study of medicine. 4 vols. London.
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- … Good, John Mason. 1822. The study of medicine. 4 vols. London. 1 …
From E. A. Darwin 14 November 1822
Summary
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 25 [October 1822]
Summary
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Oct 1822] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2 |
Bory de Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822–31. Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle. 17 vols. Paris.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Saint-Vincent, Jean Baptiste Georges Marie, ed. 1822–31. Dictionnaire classique d’histoire …
Sabine, Joseph. 1822. On the native country of the wild potatoe, with an account of its culture in the garden of the Horticultural Society; and observations on the importance of obtaining improved varieties of the cultivated plant. [Read 19 November 1822.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 249–59.
Wynne, Rice (1777–1846)
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- … and surgeon. Mayor of Shrewsbury, 1822. Provincial Medical Directory . 1 Shrewsbury …
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Correspondents in Commentary
Francis Galton
Summary
Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College …
Fritz Müller
Summary
Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … born in the small Thuringian town of Windischholzhausen in 1822, the eldest son of a natural history …
John Stevens Henslow
Summary
The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … the end of the year had collected 263 flowering plants. In 1822, Henslow was appointed Professor of …
