From B. J. Sulivan [November 1838 – April 1839]
Summary
Observations on the geology of the Falkland Islands.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1838 – Apr 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 20–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13847 |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
To Eugène Robert 28 March 1838
Summary
Discusses the geology of volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Eugène (Eugène) Robert |
Date: | 28 Mar 1838 |
Classmark: | Robert 1840, pp. 443–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350F |
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 [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 |
Questions for Mr Wynne [February–July 1838]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | [–] Wynne |
Date: | [Feb–July 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399 |
To Richard Owen [January 1838]
Summary
Would like to call upon RO to discuss the last engravings sent by George Scharf. CD assumes that the revise of Toxodon [see 395] was received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Jan 1838] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399A |
To J. S. Henslow [21 January 1838]
Summary
Sends rock specimen for W. H. Miller. Asks JSH to see whether there is any geology in P. B. Webb and Sabin Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries [1835–50]. Finds his work on geology growing so large that it will take more than one volume and asks whether this will make publication aid more difficult.
Has accepted Secretaryship of the Geological Society.
Will not come to Cambridge because "as long as I continue well I cannot bear to leave my work for half a day".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [21 Jan 1838] |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-400 |
To John Gould [February 1838]
Summary
The publishers [of Zoology] have agreed to 50 plates [for Birds]. Asks JG to decide which are most worthy of being done. Also asks him to see whether Bayfield will undertake [to colour] the birds (and quadrupeds) at something under 5d each.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [Feb 1838] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 20, April 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-401 |
From William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie to Charles Lyell [14 February 1838]
Summary
Impressed by CD’s theory [of earthworm action].
Author: | William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [14 Feb 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 February 1838
Summary
Encloses the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the first part of "The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" [Fossil Mammalia].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402A |
From John George Children 21 February 1838
Summary
In view of the charges directed by Edward Blyth against George R. Gray for gross incivility and discourtesy in discharging his duties as assistant in the zoological department at the British Museum, CD is asked by the Trustees to comment upon his own experience with Gray and to offer his judgment of these charges.
Author: | John George Children |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/1/74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402B |
From A. Y. Spearman 23 February 1838
Summary
Payment of the Smith, Elder & Co. account has been ordered, amounting to the sum of £68.10.10 for the first part of the Zoology.
Author: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 443) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402C |
To John George Children 22 February [1838]
Summary
Testifies to the courtesy and helpfulness of George Gray [assistant at the British Museum]. [See 402b.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John George Children |
Date: | 22 Feb [1838] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Officers’ Reports 20 (1838): 5314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402F |
From Robert FitzRoy 26 February 1838
Summary
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1838 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-403 |
From William Buckland to the Geological Society of London 9 March 1838
Summary
Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".
Author: | William Buckland |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 9 Mar 1838 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-404 |
From Robert Bastard James to Charles Lyell [c. 10 March 1838]
Summary
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Author: | Robert Bastard James |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [c. 10 Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-405 |
To J. S. Henslow [26 March 1838]
Summary
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [26 Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-406 |
To Susan Darwin [1 April 1838]
Summary
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 223: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-407 |
From Leonard Horner 7 April [1838]
Summary
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Author: | Leonard Horner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr [1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-408 |
Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
Darwin, Emma | (9) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (9) |
Buckland, William | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
Darwin, Emma | (7) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (84) |
Darwin, Emma | (16) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (16) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |