To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Comments on the quality of the meat of the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548A |
To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Describes the range of conditions under which the guanaco thrives and the ease with which it can be tamed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548B |
To John Edward Gray 1 January [1840]
Summary
Testimonial in behalf of JEG’s application for the position of keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum from which John George Children was about to resign.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1840] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library, J. E. Gray Miscellaneous papers vol. 1: f.118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548C |
To T. C. Eyton [6 January 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell.
Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.
CD has become a father.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | [6 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-549 |
To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 January 1840
Summary
Presents the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of the fourth part (now published) of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 Jan 1840 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550A |
To the Geological Society of London 22 January 1840
Summary
W. B. Clarke’s paper on ashes falling at sea off Cape Verde Islands [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 145–6] need not be published in Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 22 Jan 1840 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-551 |
To J. S. Henslow [24 January 1840]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [24 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-552 |
To [W. A. Leighton?] [1840–77?]
Summary
Valediction only of a letter stuck into a writing case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | [1840–77?] |
Classmark: | Estate of the late Mr D. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770H |
letter | (9) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Geological Society of London | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Hall, Basil | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Walton, William | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Walton, William | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Geological Society of London | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |