To J. S. Henslow 6 October [1836]
Summary
His joy at being home. Anxious to see JSH for advice on his geological specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 6 Oct [1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 31 DAR/1/1/31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-311 |
To J. S. Henslow [1 November 1836]
Summary
Alerts JSH to boxes of specimens and letter of 30 Oct on the way by wagon.
Thomas Bell has expressed interest in CD’s Crustacea and reptiles.
CD’s ignorance about his botanical specimens embarrasses him.
Asks whether JSH is disappointed with Galapagos plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 33 DAR/1/1/33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-318 |
To William Jackson Hooker [23 August 1845]
Summary
Will be pleased to provide a testimonial for J. D. Hooker, who is seeking the Chair in Botany at Edinburgh, but fears he himself is so little known that it could only be of the smallest service. Has asked Lyell to write to J. F. W. Herschel giving an opinion of J. D. Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [23 Aug 1845] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence: English letters 1845, 23: 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-904 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 July 1836
Summary
Asks JSH to propose him for Geological Society. His meeting with Sir John Herschel and Andrew Smith at Cape of Good Hope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 July 1836 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 30 DAR/1/1/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-304 |
To J. S. Henslow [28–9] January 1836
Summary
His joy at prospect of journey’s end in eight months’ time.
Observations on Australia.
Reports on his collecting in Galapagos – its flora and very curious birds; its instructive geology.
Tahiti and good work of missionaries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [28–9] Jan 1836 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 29 DAR/1/1/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-295 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
To A. B. Buckley 23 February 1875
Summary
Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
Date: | 23 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9868 |
To J. S. Henslow [30–1 October 1836]
Summary
CD in London to meet with naturalists about his collections. Lyell and Owen are helpful, but no one else, except R. E. Grant, seems to want to examine his specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [30–1 Oct 1836] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 32 DAR/1/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-317 |
To Charles Lyell [8 March 1850]
Summary
Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.
Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1308 |
To John Obadiah Westwood 15 August [1861]
Summary
As a general rule CD thinks it best to deposit specimens in the British Museum, and "bitterly regrets" he did not send all his specimens there. Nevertheless he agrees to sending his crustaceans to the Oxford Museum.
CD is at work on Orchids. He would be greatly obliged if JOW could send him specimens of pollen-masses attached to head or base of proboscis of moths.
Asks for reference to Morren’s paper that JOW mentioned before [see 2862].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 15 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3234 |
To William Lonsdale 6 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 6 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, pp. 436–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080A |
To W. J. Broderip 19 January [1839]
Summary
Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.
Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William John Broderip |
Date: | 19 Jan [1839] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-488 |
From J. M. Herbert [19 November 1836]
Summary
Welcomes CD; has tried to find him. May see him in Cambridge. Reminisces about CD’s musical taste and memory. Describes Charles Whitley’s wedding and wife. Mentions friends.
Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1836] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-323 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.
Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.
Expression of the emotions.
Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.
JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3875 |
From Andrew Smith 16 March 1839
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-498 |
To John Stevens Henslow 3 November 1838
Summary
Relates plan for an appendix to his Journal of researches which will include facts of species of birds’ being different in different islands of the Galápagos and also of the lizards and tortoises on the islands. Asks JSH whether he can supply parallels in the plant life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 3 Nov 1838 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 2031 A. Gift of H. W. Lende Jr) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-429A |
From Adam Sedgwick 18 September 1831
Summary
Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.
Answers a query about books.
Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.
Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.
Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1831 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-129 |
To Henry Denny [27 July – 10 August 1844]
Summary
Sends four packets of lice and suggests writing to Dr A. Smith, "the S. African traveller", for assistance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | [27 July – 10 Aug 1844] |
Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-763F |
To J. D. Hooker [27 June 1845]
Summary
Busy correcting proofs. Thanks for JDH’s remarks; asks him to send any other corrections soon; goes to press with second part of Journal of researches in less than a week.
Urges collections of all kinds on any isolated islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 June 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-880 |
From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
letter | (21) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Smith, Andrew | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Henslow, J. S. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
Denny, Henry | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Lonsdale, William | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Smith, Andrew | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |