To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 8 March 1856
Summary
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1837 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DCP-LETT-1837 …
From Adam Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London 10 July 1837
Summary
Referee’s report on "Elevation on the coast of Chili" [(1838), Collected papers 1: 41–3] and paper by Alexander Caldcleugh on same subject. Recommends printing CD’s in Transactions and shortening Caldcleugh’s. [W. Lonsdale’s note shows CD’s paper withdrawn 15 Nov 1837, Caldcleugh’s ordered not printed 15 Nov 1837.]
| Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 10 July 1837 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-365 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Adam Sedgwick to the Geological Society of London 10 July 1837 …
- … London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/49) Adam Sedgwick unstated 10 July 1837 Geological Society of London …
- … s. [W. Lonsdale’s note shows CD’s paper withdrawn 15 Nov 1837, Caldcleugh’s ordered …
- … not printed 15 Nov 1837. ] …
- … London July 10. 1837 Gentlemen I have read M r . Darwin’s paper On the proofs of recent …
- … Bibliography Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1837. Some observations on the elevation of the strata …
- … on the coast of Chile. [Read 4 January 1837. ] Proceedings of the Geological Society of …
- … Caldcleugh 1837 . A note on Sedgwick’s report reads: ‘M r . …
- … Darwin’s was withdrawn 15th Nov. 1837 | M r . Caldcleugh’ …
- … s ordered not to be printed—15 Nov 1837’. No reason appears in the Geological Society …
- … that he later withdrew his paper of 31 May 1837 on coral islands, namely that he did not …
- … see letter to William Lonsdale, 3 August [1837] ). Abstracts of both papers by CD were, …
To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [June – Sept 1837] Charles Babbage …
- … At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB. …
- … to Charles Lyell , who had left for the Continent on 6 June 1837 ( K. M. Lyell, ed. …
- … 1881 , 2: 13). Whewell 1837 . …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Whewell, William. 1837. History of the inductive sciences, from …
[Francis Thornhill Baring] 11 October 1837
Summary
Their Lordships communicate their entire approval of the proposal in CD’s letter of 20 September 1837. [See 378a.]
| Author: | Francis Thornhill Baring, Lord Northbrook |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-381A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Francis Thornhill Baring] 11 October 1837 …
- … See letter to A. Y. Spearman, 20 September 1837 . …
- … 27/137 p. 322) Francis Thornhill Baring, Lord Northbrook 11 Oct 1837 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … their entire approval of the proposal in CD’s letter of 20 September 1837. [See 378a . ] …
- … are proceeding in the Work in the manner therein suggested. 11 th Oct r . 1837 F Baring. …
To John Richardson [24 July 1837]
Summary
Questions about woods in cold, northern climates; about JR’s reference to frozen sandstone; about how far out from the shore the sea may become frozen.
His petition for assistance from the government is in statu quo; he is working at his Journal [of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Richardson |
| Date: | [24 July 1837] |
| Classmark: | Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-366F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To John Richardson [24 July 1837] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [24 July 1837] John Richardson …
- … see this volume, Supplement, letter to John Richardson, [11 August 1837] and n. 3. …
- … and the reference to Monday evening. In 1837, 24 July was a Monday. CD evidently refers to …
- … s house; CD’s plan to make a visit in May or June 1837 was announced in his letter to …
- … Caroline Darwin, [19 May – 16 June 1837] ( Correspondence vol. 2). CD was trying to …
- … British America ( J. Richardson 1829–37 ) in 1837, having studied the area as surgeon and …
- … 2, letter to Francis Beaufort, 16 June 1837 and n. 2). The Treasury had provided similar …
- … of the Board of the Treasury, 25 August 1837). A preliminary application was submitted on …
- … J. S. Henslow to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, T. S. Rice, 21 June 1837). CD’s own …
- … request for £1000 followed on 3 August 1837 (see ibid. , letter to the Chancellor of the …
- … Exchequer, T. S. Rice, 3 August 1837) and was granted …
- … by mid-August 1837 (see ibid. , letter to J. …
- … S. Henslow, 16 August [1837] ). See also Browne 1995 , pp. …
- … 367–70. In 1837, CD worked on Journal of researches from 13 March to the end of …
To John Richardson [11 August 1837]
Summary
Chancellor of the Exchequer has ordered £1000 for the publication of the Zoology. Would like to meet JR to ask his advice on one or two points.
Thanks for his long account of the climate of North America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Richardson |
| Date: | [11 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370F |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To John Richardson [11 August 1837] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [11 Aug 1837] John Richardson …
- … of illustrating Zoology , sent on 3 August 1837 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to the …
- … of the Exchequer, T. S. Rice, 3 August 1837), and to Richardson’s expected visit to …
- … see this volume, Supplement, letter to John Richardson, [24 July 1837] , nn. 3, 4, and …
- … 8. By October or November 1837, the Journal of researches was at proof stage ( …
- … Spring Rice , on 16 August (see ibid. , letter to J. S. Henslow, 16 August [1837] ). …
- … In 1837, the Friday preceding 15 August was 11 August. That summer, CD had already paid …
- … letter to John Richardson, [24 July 1837] ). The letter from Richardson has not been …
- … letter to John Richardson, [24 July 1837] and n. 5. Richardson was a former recipient of …
- … letter to John Richardson, [24 July 1837] , n. 5). Until 1846, in London and some …
- … letter to John Richardson, [24 July 1837] and nn. 2–4 and 8. CD cited information on …
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837 …
- … 51 Charles Robert Darwin Cambridge 27 Feb 1837 Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline …
- … Bibliography Babbage, Charles. 1837. The ninth Bridgewater treatise. A fragment. London. …
- … from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836–1837. Proceedings of the American Philosophical …
- … Cambridge] Monday, Feb. y 27 th . 1837. My dear Caroline It is nearly twelve o’clock, but …
- … The copyist has written ‘Feb. y . 29 th . 1837. ’, which has been corrected in pencil …
- … to read ‘27 t h’. 27 February 1837 was a Monday. The minutes of …
- … Philosophical Society on 27 February 1837 record the event as follows: ‘An account by Mr …
- … 1961 . Extracts were published in Babbage 1837 . ) A space has been left by the copyist. …
- … by Capt. FitzRoy, R.N. [Read 4 January 1837. ] By Charles Darwin. Proceedings of the …
- … findings in a letter of 23 January 1837 ( Wilson 1972 , pp. 436–7). For an account of the …
To F. W. Hope [21 June 1837]
Summary
Discusses insect specimens he left with FWH. Asks if he may state on FWH’s authority that a third or a half of the specimens from Sydney and Hobart Town are undescribed – a striking fact, showing imperfect knowledge of the insects in the close neighbourhood of the two Australian capitals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick William Hope |
| Date: | [21 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-362 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To F. W. Hope [21 June 1837] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [21 June 1837] Frederick William Hope …
- … Press. 1977. Hope, Frederick William. 1837. Descriptions of some species of Carabidæ , …
- … Esq. , in his late voyage. [Read 1 May 1837. ] Transactions of the Entomological Society …
- … volume 2 of his Monographia Chalciditum ( F. Walker 1839 ). Waterhouse 1837–40a (read 5 …
- … December 1836) and 1837–40b (read …
- … 2 January 1837). Hope had read …
- … a paper at the Entomological Society on 1 May 1837 describing some Caribidae …
- … collected by CD ( Hope 1837 –40, pp. 128–31). No further descriptions of CD’s specimens …
To the Geological Society of London 20 October 1837
Summary
Report on J. G. Forchhammer’s communications on changes of levels of land in Denmark [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 554–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1837 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To the Geological Society of London 20 October 1837 …
- … GSL/COM/P/4/2/65) Charles Robert Darwin Maer 20 Oct 1837 Geological Society of London …
- … Forchhammer 1837 (read …
- … 31 May 1837). The paper was published in the Transactions of the Geological Society 6 ( …
- … Bibliography Forchhammer, Johan Georg. 1837. On some changes of level which have taken …
- … historical period in Denmark. [Read 31 May 1837. ] Proceedings of the Geological Society …
- … Forchhammer’s description of the shingle beaches. — Charles Darwin October 20 th . 1837 …
Carlyle, Thomas. 1837. Memoirs of Mirabeau. London and Westminster Review (January 1837): 382–439.
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To Richard Owen [ c. December 1837] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [c. Dec 1837] Richard Owen …
- … to have been written on 28 December 1837). Part I, No. 1, of Zoology, which contained the …
- … letter to Richard Owen, [28 December 1837] ). Owen described it as ‘ A gigantic extinct …
- … were the subjects of earlier papers read at the Geological Society (see Owen 1837 , read …
- … 19 April 1837; CD’s ‘A sketch of the deposits containing extinct …
- … Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata’, read 3 May 1837, Collected papers 1: 44–5). …
- … Orbigny 1835–47 . In 1837 only the first volume, the account of Orbigny’s travels in South …
- … et Cie, P. Bertrand. Owen, Richard. 1837. A description of the cranium of the Toxodon …
- … the herbivorous Cetacea. [Read 19 April 1837. ] Proceedings of the Geological Society of …
From Henry Colburn to Robert Fitzroy 22 September 1837
Summary
Cancelled. Third party letter. For text see letter to William Shoberl, [22 or 23 September 1837], n. 1 (Correspondence 2: 49.
| Author: | Henry Colburn |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Darwin 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-379 |
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Matches: 9 hits
- … the most important of Darwin’s activities during the years 1837–43 was unquestionably his work on …
- … species came to be as they are (Kohn 1980). Between April 1837 and September 1838 he filled several …
- … voyage. The book was finished and set in type by November 1837, though not published until 1839, …
- … countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle . Also in November 1837, Darwin read the fourth of a series of …
- … May 1838] ). The new research Darwin undertook after 1837 was an extension and an …
- … Lyell had called the ‘mystery of mysteries’ (see Babbage 1837 and Cannon 1961). In the …
- … species and varieties had no basis in reality (W. Herbert 1837, p. 341); species were only clearly …
- … Health Active and productive as the years 1837–43 were, they were also years during which …
- … seeds and other interests mentioned in the correspondence of 1837–43, which at first seem unrelated, …
