To Susan Darwin [22 February 1842]
Summary
Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].
Plans to visit Shrewsbury.
Describes behaviour of William Darwin.
Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [22 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-621 |
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1842]
Summary
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 Mar [1842] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-624 |
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- … her’ ( Autobiography , p. 22). See also Correspondence …
To W. H. Fitton 23 June 1842
Summary
[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]
CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Fitton |
Date: | 23 June 1842 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-632 |
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- … from William Buckland , dated 22 July 1842. According to …
To William Yarrell [5 or 12 September 1842]
Summary
CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.
Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Yarrell |
Date: | [5 or 12] Sept 1842 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-613 |
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- … bantam, in which the cocks lack male plumage ( EB, 22: 215). …
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Yarrell, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Yarrell, William | (1) |