To Charles Lyell [12 November 1838]
Summary
Announces his engagement to Emma Wedgwood.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [12 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-432 |
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838] …
- … Robert Darwin London, Gt Marlborough St, 36 [14] Sept [1838] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … in History of Biology 4: 67–170. Lyell, Charles. 1838. Elements of geology. London: John …
- … Lyell 1840 ). See letter from Charles Lyell, 6 and 8 September 1838 . CD presented a brief …
- … Appendix II). See letter from Charles Lyell, 6 and 8 September 1838 , n. 3. This was Élie …
- … Lyell 1840 , 1: 241–2. CD discussed the fauna of the region in Journal and remarks, pp. 300–2. The Lyells remained at Kinnordy until 14 November, when they departed for London ( Wilson 1972 , p. 483). Probably Charles Stokes . Late in 1837, Roderick Murchison, who was General Secretary of the British Association, had offered Charles Babbage the position of President for the 1839 meeting. However, when John Herschel returned to England in May 1838 …
To Charles Lyell 9 August [1838]
Summary
Comments on receiving copy of Lyell’s Elements [of geology]. Much is new to CD, and he is copying out notes and references.
Criticises geological work of John Phillips.
Describes expedition to Glen Roy, about which he is writing a paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137].
Enjoys the Athenaeum Club.
Criticises entomological work of F. W. Hope.
Asks Lyell to obtain for him a copy of barometric readings made at Leith.
Asks him to ascertain altitude of several Scottish lochs.
Comments on FitzRoy’s character.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-424 |
To George Robert Waterhouse [August 1838–40]
Summary
Determined to make GRW a geologist. Sends copy of C. Lyell [?Elements of geology (1838)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | [Aug 1838–40] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-416 |
To John Murray 29 April [1859]
Summary
Will send first six chapters [of Origin] for the press. Sends data on size of MS and book. His "beau ideal" for type and size is Lyell’s Manual [of geology] 1st ed.
Important to his health to get the work printed quickly. Must leave home soon to stay for months at a water-cure establishment.
Asks printer to send a proof-sheet a day until he gets well ahead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.38–39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2455 |
To Charles Lyell [24 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.
Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [24 Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1056 |
To Henry Johnson 22 February 1882
Summary
Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13699 |
To Charles Lyell [5 July 1845]
Summary
Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.
Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [5 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-882 |
To Charles Lyell [19 December 1837]
Summary
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-394 |
To [unidentified] 12 September [1838]
Summary
Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-427 |
To William John Broderip [August–December 1838]
Summary
Would like to arrange a meeting about CD’s collection of shells [from the Beagle voyage].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William John Broderip |
| Date: | [Aug–Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-422 |
To William Lonsdale [c. June 1838]
Summary
Responds to report of the referee [on his paper "The formation of mould"]. Strikes out a paragraph and wants to add a note. Asks WL’s advice about a sentence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | [c. June 1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-417 |
To Charles Lyell 28 March [1859]
Summary
Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2437 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1838. Elements of geology. London: John …
- … Charles Lyell (see Wilson 1972 , pp. 341–4), and had published one of CD’s books, the second edition of Journal of researches in 1845. See the enclosure; a facsimile is reproduced in Correspondence vol. 7, facing page 283. CD refers to the manuscript of Natural selection . C. Lyell 1838 . …
To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
To John Murray 31 March [1859]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish his work on the origin of species. Will send some chapters as soon as copyist has finished. Sends list of 12 chapters. It will be a popular abstract of more than 20 years’ work. It ought to be popular with scientific and semi-scientific readers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.12–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2441 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1838. Elements of geology. London: John Murray. Origin : On …
- … Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] . The work was eventually divided into 14 chapters (see nn. 6 and 7, below). CD had sent the chapter relating to geographical distribution to Joseph Dalton Hooker for his comments in early March (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). CD refers to C. Lyell 1838 . …
To Basil Hall 15 March 1840
Summary
Discussion of the geology of Coquimbo, Chile.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Basil Hall |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium (Aut. 1061/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558F |
To J. D. Hooker 7 September [1854]
Summary
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1588 |
To John Murray [27 July 1845]
Summary
Sent last sheet [of second part of Journal of researches] to printer yesterday. Will send half of MS for next part in four or five days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [27 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.15–16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-896 |
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
To Leonard Horner 29 August [1844]
Summary
Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].
Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].
Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1844] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-771 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1838, pp. 116–21). Probably Géologie , the third part of the third volume of Orbigny 1835–47 , which was published in 1842. See letter to Charles Lyell, [ …
- … 1838), volcanoes were caused by pressure from below which arched the strata into a dome-like formation until the centre collapsed and a vent was formed. Charles Lyell ( …
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