To Charles Babbage [1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 37191: 297) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-476 |
To Charles Babbage [1838]
Summary
CD is much obliged for invitations to CB’s parties, but is afraid to accept because he would meet people to whom he has sworn he never goes out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-351 |
To Charles Babbage [October 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [Oct 1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 296) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-474 |
To Charles Babbage [21 January 1838]
Summary
Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [21 Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-357 |
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 |
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 26 May [1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
To Charles Babbage [February 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [Feb 1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-470 |
To Charles Babbage 19 [February 1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-479 |
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 |
Babbage, Charles. 1832. On the economy of machinery and manufactures. London.
Babbage, Charles. 1837. The ninth Bridgewater treatise. A fragment. London.
Babbage, Charles. 1829. A letter to the Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances. Edinburgh Journal of Science n.s. 1 (1829): 85–104.
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
From Henry Holland to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 24 February [1869]
Summary
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6632 |
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 |
To Baden Powell 18 January [1860]
Summary
To avoid possible misundertanding of his letter [2654] of that morning, CD wishes to make clear that he did not wish to imply that BP’s essay and the Vestiges of creation were in the same class. The more he thinks of it the more difficult he feels it would be to give a fair account of the authors who have maintained the modification of species. CD finds that he referred to BP’s views in the preface to his larger work [Natural selection], which was replaced by the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Baden Powell |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2655 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Babbage, Charles. 1837. The ninth Bridgewater treatise. A fragment. London. [ …
- … Charles Lyell, 21 June [1859] ). CD included Haldeman among those who had previously discussed the species question in the ‘historical sketch’ prepared as a preface for the American edition of Origin . See Appendix IV. CD refers to the manuscript on species that he wrote between 1856 and 1858 ( Natural selection ), from which Origin was largely compiled. The preface has not been preserved. The quotation is taken from Powell 1855 , p. 359. John Frederick William Herschel’s remark was printed in Babbage …
From Susan Darwin 15[–18] August 1832
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15[–18] Aug 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-180 |
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
From J. M. Herbert [28 March] 1834
Summary
A letter full of news of Cambridge and friends: the BAAS meeting at Cambridge; charges of corruption in the University; the Cambridge petition on behalf of Dissenters.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Mar] 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-240 |
| letter | (18) |
| bibliography | (3) |
| people | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Babbage, Charles | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Babbage, Charles | (10) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Whewell, William | (2) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
