To J. D. Hooker [12 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1022 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [14 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1024 |
To J. D. Hooker [15 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [15 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1025 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1027 |
To Robert FitzRoy 23 November [1846]
Summary
J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.
A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 23 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1030 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1846]
Summary
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1031 |
To David Thomas Ansted 25 November [1846]
Summary
Encloses a set of proof sheets of the fossil shells in South America.
Also encloses some specimen sheets by G. B. Sowerby to disseminate as an advertisement.
Asks that E. A. Darwin’s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | Hans A. O. Baumann (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032F |
To Richard Owen 25 November [1846]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1033 |
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
To J. D. Hooker [December 1846]
Summary
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1035 |
To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1036 |
To John Higgins 12 December [1846]
Summary
Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 12 Dec [1846] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1037 |
To A. C. Ramsay 21 December [1846]
Summary
Discusses the geological origin of terraces.
Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].
Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 21 Dec [1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1038 |
To John Murray 30 December [1846]
Summary
Asks JM for information on sales of his Journal of researches and to procure for him a copy of the American edition. He is curious to see if the part on slavery has been altered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 30 Dec [1846] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.10–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1039 |
To W. D. Fox [before 3 October 1846]
Summary
The potato seeds were collected in 1835 from tubers in a remote area of the Cordilleras of Chile and were certainly wild. Refers him to Journal [of researches, p. 347].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [before 3 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13809 |
To John Gould [c. October 1846]
Summary
Recommends Ernst Dieffenbach for expedition to Guatemala.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [c. Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13812 |
To the London Library 1 February [1846?]
Summary
Orders John Pye Smith’s book [Relations between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of geological science (1839)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | London Library |
Date: | 1 Feb [1846?] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (Corbett Autograph Collection MS21/3/1/39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13821 |
To Georgina Tollet 1 October [1846?–71]
Summary
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1846-71] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2499 |
To Royal Geographical Society [28 January or 4 February 1846]
Summary
Enclosed MS by Lieut. W. Christopher misrepresents CD’s views. Contains errors in zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julian Jackson |
Date: | [28 Jan or 4 Feb] 1846 |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-646 |
To Robert Fitzroy [1846]
Summary
Cancelled: part of 1014. Thanks RF for his kindness on Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [1846] |
Classmark: | LL 1: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-936 |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Horner, Leonard | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (2) |
Sharpe, Daniel | (2) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (2) |
Stokes, J. L. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Admiralty | (1) |
Annals and Magazine of Natural History | (1) |
Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Grey, George | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Hutton, Robert | (1) |
Jackson, Julian | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
Langton, Catherine | (1) |
Lindley, John | (1) |
London Library | (1) |
Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
Mallet, Robert | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Reeve Brothers. | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
Wedgwood, Francis | (1) |
Williamson, W. C. | (1) |