From Richard Sutton Ford 6 May 1839
Author: | Richard Sutton Ford |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-509 |
From George Tollet [10 May 1839]
Author: | George Embury; George Tollet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 May 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-510 |
To the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society 23 May 1839
Summary
As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | American Philosophical Society. |
Date: | 23 May 1839 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511 |
To Gideon Algernon Mantell 23 May 1839
Summary
Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
Date: | 23 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511A |
From Benjamin Silliman Sr and Benjamin Silliman Jr 24 May 1839
Summary
Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.
Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.
Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton |
Date: | 24 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511F |
To Alphonse de Candolle 25 May [1839]
Summary
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 25 May [1839] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512 |
To A. Y. Spearman 27 May 1839
Summary
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 May 1839 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512A |
To W. S. MacLeay 29 May 1839
Summary
Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sharp Macleay |
Date: | 29 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-513 |
Letter of recommendation for Syms Covington 29 May 1839
Summary
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-514 |
To T. L. Mitchell 31 May [1839]
Summary
CD’s servant [Syms Covington] will work his passage to Australia.
Returns a curious stone, of which he hopes to publish an account. [See Volcanic islands, p. 38.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Livingstone Mitchell |
Date: | 31 May [1839] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1 pp.1–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-515 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Embury, George | (1) |
Ford, R. S. | (1) |
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
American Philosophical Society. | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Macleay, W. S. | (1) |
Mantell, G. A. | (1) |
Mitchell, T. L. | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
American Philosophical Society. | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Embury, George | (1) |