To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1842]
Summary
CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | [19 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-620 |
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 Emma Darwin [8 March 1842]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [8 Mar 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-622 |
To Emma Darwin [13 March 1842]
Summary
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [13 Mar 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-623 |
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 |
To W. D. Fox [31 March 1842]
Summary
Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [31 Mar 1842] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-625 |
To A. Y. Spearman 29 April 1842
Summary
The fourth number of part four is now published; the Smith, Elder & Co. account is presented.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Apr 1842 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4723 paper 15949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-625A |
To Emma Darwin [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is "stomachy and be-blue-devilled" because of costs of publishing [Zoology and Coral reefs]. Wonders how the remainder [of the Zoology and Geology of "Beagle"] can be published without taking £200 or £300 out of their personal funds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [9 May 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-626 |
To Leonard Jenyns [May–September 1842]
Summary
Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.
Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [May–Sept 1842] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-627 |
To Mary-Anne Herbert [5 May 1842]
Summary
Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert |
Date: | [5 May 1842] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-628 |
To Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.
Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].
CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [9 May 1842] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [17 May 1842]
Summary
Gives instructions for sending out copies of Coral reefs to various journals. Discusses the complimentary copies which have already been sent out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [17 May 1842] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 December 1988); Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (April 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629A |
To H. E. Strickland 31 May [1842]
Summary
Comments on HES’s Report ["Report of a committee … (on) nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing names that are only partially erroneous to prevent those who detect the error from coining new names and attaching their own. HES’s rule for "authority for a species" is difficult, though on the whole best. Suggests stating it boldly to prevent appropriation of species names by "tacker[s] of two old names together".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | 31 May [1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-630 |
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 |
To Catherine Darwin [16 September 1842]
Summary
Emma and Doddy [W. E. Darwin] like Down. CD has met, and plans to employ, the local surgeon. "I feel sure I shall become deeply attached to Down, with a few improvements".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | [16 Sept 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 6 (EH 88202298) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-633 |
To Susan Darwin [late July–August 1842]
Summary
Has made an offer for house at Down, renting having been refused. Discusses price, risks involved, and Edward Cresy’s advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [late July–Aug 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A16–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-634 |
From John Provis 14 July 1842
Author: | John Provis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1842 |
Classmark: | DAR 27.1: B23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-635 |
From John Provis 20 July 1842
Author: | John Provis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1842 |
Classmark: | DAR 27.1: B24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-636 |
To Catherine Darwin [24 July 1842]
Summary
Describes the village of Down and the house they are thinking of buying.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | [24 July 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 7 (EH 88202299) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-637 |
To A. Y. Spearman 5 August 1842
Summary
The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of part five of the Zoology, now published, is presented.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Aug 1842 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4723 paper 15949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-637A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Provis, John | (2) |
Becher, A. B. | (1) |
Blunt, Thomas | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Baxter, W. W. | (5) |
Baxter, William | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Baxter, W. W. | (5) |
Baxter, William | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |